Blog Writing Examples I Like
As I was starting to write my own blog, I’d try to write, and the myriad options of words, phrases, images, opening-lines, and conceptual directions all lay before me; and I was humbled, like a man seeing all of the Creation from God’s view, wondering “Where do I start?”, then “What comes next?”
Funneling the complex image inside my brain, which looks vaguely like a tag-cloud, into a linear set of serial words was baffling.
I’d read other blogs and think: So obvious! So clear! Of course they would write it exactly that way! It was as if they just followed the natural flow of the idea they had. But I was struck with, “But, which idea?!?” When I think about something I want to write, five different ways that it could start and flow come to mind nearly simultaneously. It finally dawned on me that the longer I wait to write, the more options flood my brain… rending it paralyzed.
So, I decided I was just going to write — write until I got in the habit of being able to maintain one stable conceptual flow in my mind long enough to actually type it out in those irritatingly linear words required by written English.
So, this ties in with the idea of “examples of good blog writing” since I’m going to list some of the blogs I read before that made me feel hopeful for my future abilities.
Read LEGOs, Play-Doh, and Programming which begins like this…
The other day I went to Target with my son. Like most kids, I think, he’s convinced that Target is a toy store, which just happens to sell towels and shoes and cleaning supplies, too, so in his eyes it’d be criminal to not walk through the bare handful of toy aisles.
Besides, the toy section is across from the electronics section, which all geeks know is where the real toys are.
So, we went to the toy section and started browsing…