I know the whole world already knows this fact and that I’d have to agree that I’m one of those few ignorant people who have started to step up into this huge ladder of world wide webbing, but I’d have to say this again for others and especially for myself: this online blogging, it’s prodigious!
In fact, while I am writing this first piece of opinion, my fingers are shaking. I remember one of my literature teachers saying blogging is not her type, and that she still prefers the conventional way of putting her thoughts into the paper rather than just typing them on the screen. At that moment, I totally agreed with her and I was convinced that I was swayed by her standpoint. She has that persuasive factor, you know. And as a budding writer, my idea about writing is really the actual writing of words into a paper and making use of the black and blue ink, and seeing too many erasures and circles on it. If I have to press more on its romantic side, I think it’s how I can see my own hand writing on the paper, or the smell of the ink, or the crumpling of its corners, or just the mere presence of the paper in my hands and the assurance that the words are there being kept safe that pulls me into liking the act of writing rather than just the idea of writing but is really typing.
Now that her class had been past for me, her standpoint is slowly becoming a blur in my memory. By looking around and actually sensing the way in which the whole world is shifting right now into something more and more intangible, I begin to have second thoughts about what she said. Besides, too many have already said there’s money in this kind of “online arena.”
That’s why my fingers are shaking. Slowly, I’m beginning to think of learning its know-hows.
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