Sorry it's been so long since I've posted on this blog. I've been spending a lot of time on tumblr. It's a nice site and I like it for all of its socialization factors (everyone from twitter seems to be there), but I just realized that it isn't really a tool for writing an actual blog. It's more of a display case.
Look at the songs I like!
Look at this video!
Here's another picture of my face!
Here's my boobs!
Look at how funny and popular I am!
I mean, there are some people who occasionally really dig deep and give more than just the surface stuff, but there don't seem to be that many who do that. It's almost like facebook where you can write a few short sentences about the things that happened to you that day and let your followers 'heart' it. I'm not knocking it because I like tumblr very much, but I just need to get back to writing things that mean something to me. Even if no one else reads them.
I've been reading this book called The Comedy Bible. It's a guide for people who want to be comedy writers. Now I don't know if I am going to be a comedy writer when I grow up or anything, but I'm a big fan of comedy and I've always enjoyed writing. I was told all through high school and college that I had a knack for it and I have a very nice writing style. I don't know if that's true, but I do know that I like it. In the book, the author says that the minute you wake up in the morning you need to grab paper and pen and just write for 10 minutes. Before you go to the bathroom, before you've had your coffee, before anything else and just write. Even if you don't have anything funny to write, just do it. I've been doing it for about a week now and I have to say the exercise itself feels great. No, I haven't written anything earth shattering or even anything I would want to share here, but it just feels really good to get up in the morning, grab my composition book and pen and just go at it. In fact, I find myself grabbing the book and just writing at all times of the day now. Just because I feel like I have so many thoughts I just want to get down and save for later. Thoughts that could perhaps be expanded into something else at some point. Who knows?
Well, that's why I've decided to resurrect this blog. I actually don't really care for handwriting too much because mine looks like that of a serial killer, though I will continue to do it as the need arises, especially first thing in the morning. I just think for other times of the day, if I'm at my computer and I have something I want to write about I'm going to go ahead and write it here.
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