Yes you can blog, but can you write?

The situation right now is that us poor bloggers are getting serious lip from ‘professional’ writers on social networks, such banter is unwarranted bloggers have feelings too. We have been accused of being shallow, insecure, narcissistic kids who feel out of place in the real world and seek attention by imposing their child like uneducated opinions on the inhabitants of cyber land who by viewing our blogs stroke our frail ego’s, my response????

OUCH!! (._\)

Am I insecure? Yes, I have my moments we all do. Am I a narcissist? I plead the 5^th lol but seriously a lil self-love never hurt anybody. Do I need my ego stroked by strangers? Nope…that’s why I got me a puppy; Chin is amazing at validating my self-worth. Jokes aside though, I totally get where the serious literature gods are coming from. They are old school and still believe in studying, spending time honing their craft while creating a unique writing style and love playing footsy with publishers. Seems like a shlep to me (bloggers can use words like ‘shlep’ without being kept up at night by the ghost of William Butler Yates ) all this seems like too much work, my generation does not believe in the concept of hard work, we are believers of being discovered.

The beautiful thing about blogging is that you can do you, no conforming required and no crazy grammar to adhere to. You can go wild and go about things the way you want and this relaxed nature is why more youngens * new word for youngster* are turning to blogging as an outlet to spew out their thoughts. Another thing these second rate Shakespeare's….I mean writers need to realize is that we are not trying to win a Pulitzer prize in literature or make the New York Times best seller list purely on blog posts we realize that writing is serious business that’s why we are taking a short cut hahahah.

 I have an analogy to try get my point across…. a medical student doesn’t enter Med school and then boom they are cutting people up and sowing them back together within their first semester, but something takes place between their first day in class and the day they graduate and become a medical professional. This thing that takes place during the interim is called learning, much like what is happening with me and my blogging, there is a plan here.

 I plan to write a book or two one day but I’m realistic enough to know that  right now I have no ‘juice’ ‘life experience’ or ‘stuff’ to write about yet. It may appear airy fairy but I’m going somewhere with all this It may not make sense to you but it doesn’t have to because it’s not our plan, it’s mine. Most youngens have a plan and are actually going somewhere with their seemingly silly ideas.

The microwave generation is one that likes nice yummy things, but we won’t just settle for yummy we want it yummy we want it fast and we want it on our own terms. Gone are the days of begging music executives to listen to your demo and offer you a deal ( when last did you hear of an artist approach an executive? Don’t worry I’ll wait….)  we You Tube everything and get our stuff out there ourselves. No longer do we sit around waiting for some dude in some office to believe in our dreams we have taken matters into our own hands and play the hero in our own stories, we are redefining the game and tailoring it to fit our individual style. We are different people; we have different stories, paths and views. Dreams are not one size fits all. Oh and grown-ups, weren’t you the ones who said we are all unique and special? Well we have realized this and have decided to run with it. Don’t blink you WILL miss it; we are going Usain Bolt on these dreams.