I have a mental resistance to writing here this week. It’s almost as if I don’t feel I have the right to blog if I’m not also reading – it’s not how the internet works normally.
It’s amazing how cut off this word deprivation exercise has made me feel, even when I’ve slipped up or cheated a little bit. For good or bad, a big part of my socialising and relationships are conducted through words on a screen. It’s really very lonely without that connection. I miss the random and spontaneous IM conversations, watching banter unfold on Twitter, and catching up with people’s thoughts on their blogs.
I never really understood the write-only mentality you sometimes get on message boards, where people reply without really reading what had already gone on further up in the thread. This experiment has just underlined how utterly futile it is.
I feel like I’m writing blind. What’s the point?
3 responses so far ↓
1 heat press // 14th May 2009 at 4:27 pm
Cant really see the point of the no reading exercise but thats just me. Oh well if you cant read pass the southerm comfort-lol
2 Ys // 15th May 2009 at 11:54 am
I know what you mean cos just at the end of the weekend (I rarely read blogs on the weekend) I always feel like I have a mountain of words to catch up on. Do you think you’ll catch up or do you think you’ll just have to write-off this week (pardon the pun) and start afresh with the blogs you read?
3 Pewari // 16th May 2009 at 9:26 am
Ys, I’ve just opened up my RSS reader – 821 to read. *gulp*
Yeah, I might have to mark a few as read :/
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