Why do Bloggers Blog?

FOR Dr. William R. Adan

You wrote: I don't quite understand why some people are in [blogging].

"Blog" is derived from the words web and log. Blogs are the media these days. Blogs may be projected in Google through metadata and they can be scanned when one conducts a search. From there, they can be picked up for use.

Blogs afford the writer some voice and some power. Access to traditional media is limited as we can see.

You wrote: So you don't have to be sad about how events in writing turn out.

Most bloggers blog to be able to respond to events. Without a ready venue for writing, blogs offer a perfect answer to this need.

I have my own blogs, but I stay connected with Poynter Institute and OhMyNews International, and some writers' sites besides. The first is a journalism institute and the other one works along citizen journalism. So I ride astride two horses with differing thoughts. I am curious with citizen journalism and am sympathetic to their cause, but this early I know I lack the nerve to be reading the stories. It needs patience since most citizen journalism outputs do not come in the package and approaches we were taught in school.

I have the hunch that these people are at the forefront today. It also seems they get the more respect. You know how traditional media is detested now because of its failings. And with it, traditional journalists are not looked upon with the same regard they had before.

You wrote: Writing is a grand exercise. Crafting words, lines and phrases excites and disciplines the mind and by itself is rewarding.

I say, you've answered your own question.

A Letter of Deep Feelings

Feelings inside bursting like lava of a volcano
A Letter of Deep Feelings"
FOR Alimohkon (writing.com)

This is an entirely different genre from the two write-ups on writing that you earlier wrote with this bunch. There is nothing that binds them with your title "Lollypops and Kisses." First, Lollypops can only refer to this letter as it is about family. It can only apply to writing in the sense of growing up as a budding one - but you sound like one knowing the ropes.

This piece talks mainly about property. I suggest you find other ways of making it stand alone. Re-write it not entirely as a letter. Your reader will then expand to not just your "Sister" whom you are addressing. Then it can become more useful.

An interesting way is to color it with the theme of social responsibility. Start your write-up talking about this thing, for example, about property dividing families. Your letter can then be integrated in the middle or at the end - after you have sufficiently discussed your theme.

Lazy Writing (Edited lazily)
FOR Alimohkon (writing.com)

This piece is a combination of advice to budding writers and some philosophical musings. Nice writing! However, for the purpose of publication, editors would prefer writing that has focus. To make them see meaningful ends, I suggest that you make the best of both worlds: separate your advice and philosophy and develop each of them. They both can stand on their own merits, given some more flesh and direction.

Lollypops & Kisses (My Essays)"
FOR Alimohkon

Shades of male chauvinism! You may read amusing to your kind (har-de-har-har for you) but to the opposite gender, you will sound negative. I suggest you re-direct your funny bone to the taste of your target readership. Principle of homophily, you know. Didn't you want the Eve side of the family to read this? Or did you want to keep them out? Then, retain your Viagra laugh.

You can be funny and eat your cake, too. This is your door. Make it a little pleasant. And I thought you were serving coffee?