I am very glad that the Eurovison Song Contest is over for another year. What a frightshow. I must apologize publicly to my friend
Blogging For Dummies
When you sit down at the computer to write a journal post or blog entry, do you already have a subject in mind? Do you read through your blogroll first or your friend's list hoping for inspiration? Do you just start typing in the hopes that something will come of the words you spit or dribble out?
It seems that there is plenty of prompting out there right now, for those who need a nudge, in the form of different sorts of recurring memes: Self-Portrait Tuesday, Poetry Thursday, Illustration Friday, Sunday Scribblings. There was the now defunct Haiku Smackdown Thursdays and there are Photo Fridays and Friday Fives and practically one for every day of the week out there by now if you look hard enough.
So...are they aids or crutches? Are they an inevitable part of the writing life or ubiquitious proof that we're all really sheep under the surface? A way of sharing or the easy way out? Enquiring minds wanna know...what do you think?