The Dedication of a Blogger
January 2nd 2008 06:24
Over the past year of writing here on Orble, I have come to realise the level of patience, dedication, and the sense of instant gratification invloved with blogging. It is true that it may seem a strange and interesting proposition, to us here on Orble, in which one is able to make a living off blogging.
I think you would first need to be 'discovered' blogging before you can really become a paid-in-full blogger. I would personally like to see my stuff in the SMH blog pages, but there I go again hoping for instant gratification.
When it comes to patience, if you are used to writing blogs I can see how it can be hard to even contemplate something heavy like a 90-minute screenplay or a novel. I had written two such screenplays in my time before coming to blogging, and it is a mixed bag of blessings and curses.
Such positive points to blogging such as finding an audience in which to enjoy with and give feedback on the posts are offset with soursop anonymous' etc who demand an emotional setback on your part, somehow not feeling guilty for it themselves (or else why would they keep on doing it?).
One's emotions are more tied to which one spends more time and puts more effort into, and hence it is rare that you will find me asking some kind of insider if they like my screenplays. More like, "So are you interested?" I really don't want to hear criticism over something I spent three years on, in editing and writing. Either you're in or you're out.
Another positive point is the lack of boundaries and points of view from which one can write from while blogging, the more there are the more interesting it is. Of course, the curse of this situation is those of us who decide to use their creative licence to make up news items loosely based on reality in which to express their opinions, regardless of thinking about rationalising the topic. Politics can be quite scary if you get all your news in such matters from blogs, I suspect the people who do so are as well.
Finally, dedication is a point which we can all judge ourselves on while being our own bosses in this cyberworld. If you are the first to publish a certain topic on the net (check what people are googling) I am sure you have congratulated yourself. Regardless, I must admit it is not the same as recreating genres in the film or book world.
Such an effort takes more dedication than keeping together a blog, and initially less of a reward (it certainly takes longer to get it out there, even if it is a netbook like Always Eighteen does). There needs to be connections made and criticisms catered for in which to get it past the paper you wrote it on, and a fair bit of time spent to determine that you are satisfied with it yourself after it has been through however many hands.
Although it may be nice to end the writer's life with a blog entry here and there, I feel that for many, blogging is the starting point.
For me, it is neither, and both, at the same time.
I think you would first need to be 'discovered' blogging before you can really become a paid-in-full blogger. I would personally like to see my stuff in the SMH blog pages, but there I go again hoping for instant gratification.
When it comes to patience, if you are used to writing blogs I can see how it can be hard to even contemplate something heavy like a 90-minute screenplay or a novel. I had written two such screenplays in my time before coming to blogging, and it is a mixed bag of blessings and curses.
Such positive points to blogging such as finding an audience in which to enjoy with and give feedback on the posts are offset with soursop anonymous' etc who demand an emotional setback on your part, somehow not feeling guilty for it themselves (or else why would they keep on doing it?).
One's emotions are more tied to which one spends more time and puts more effort into, and hence it is rare that you will find me asking some kind of insider if they like my screenplays. More like, "So are you interested?" I really don't want to hear criticism over something I spent three years on, in editing and writing. Either you're in or you're out.
Another positive point is the lack of boundaries and points of view from which one can write from while blogging, the more there are the more interesting it is. Of course, the curse of this situation is those of us who decide to use their creative licence to make up news items loosely based on reality in which to express their opinions, regardless of thinking about rationalising the topic. Politics can be quite scary if you get all your news in such matters from blogs, I suspect the people who do so are as well.
Finally, dedication is a point which we can all judge ourselves on while being our own bosses in this cyberworld. If you are the first to publish a certain topic on the net (check what people are googling) I am sure you have congratulated yourself. Regardless, I must admit it is not the same as recreating genres in the film or book world.
Such an effort takes more dedication than keeping together a blog, and initially less of a reward (it certainly takes longer to get it out there, even if it is a netbook like Always Eighteen does). There needs to be connections made and criticisms catered for in which to get it past the paper you wrote it on, and a fair bit of time spent to determine that you are satisfied with it yourself after it has been through however many hands.
Although it may be nice to end the writer's life with a blog entry here and there, I feel that for many, blogging is the starting point.
For me, it is neither, and both, at the same time.
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Comment by Cibbuano
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Certainly, it's not like writing for a major newspaper, but writing for the SMH, wouldn't you feel held down as well?
Comment by Optomistic Opportunism
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I'd love to write one of the smh.com blogs, but maybe I'm misguiding myself. I am happy where i am, excluding the
*choke*
$10 p.a. income.