I usually pause when someone asks me what I blog or write about. This takes me back to the reason why I blog or write and publish online. I am not your typical Diarist. What I mean I do not write about what transpired yesterday and today in my life and its surroundings. Although I do dabble in that from time to time and more often than not to share opinion than re-telling a tale.
I guess my stories are not a hundred percent faithful chronicles of things that have happened but more it shows my belief: my assessment: my point of view on the state of things of a particular object or happening in that particular space in time. It is laced with impression and notions.
If I were an honest and truthful diarist, then I would probably have a a short life span and even limited circle of friends, William Souter once wrote about diary being the assassin’s cloak through which the diarist’s hide the rapier that strikes both friend and foe. No that would be too bloody for my tastes.
No I do not fall under a diarist when I blog.
When I write it is nearly always an estimation, impression, imagining or a conclusion about a happening, an occurrence, a device or something. Oftentimes, I find it hard to promote or even to market something I do not like. It is very very hard to market or promote and still keep a balance. I prefer not to go down that particular path.
In a way I am lucky. I have a day job.
One of the advantages of having a day job is that I can choose what to write and what not to write about. Well that is my inclination.
What I like writing about is my point of view, my notion, my sentiment, my speculation or eveny my supposition. In the absence of editorials in broadsheets or culumn inches in major papers, men and women who wanted their opinion heard wrote pamphlets.
They were called pamphleteers.
The most famous pampheteers were Thomas Paine and Walt De Wit. One wrote a pamphlet called Common Sense and figured in the American War for Independence, while the other was a Naval Officer and War Hero who was known for his stinging attack on his enemies using the broadside of the pamphlet.
My guess would be that my inclination would be more towards the practice of Thomas Paine rather than Walt de Wit.
So I guess my slant, if I were to postulate; If I were to make an educated guess what nature this blogging is taking me; then I would probably specaulte amidst the floods of personal pronouns then it would the impression that I am a pamphleteer of sorts, whatever the topic, whether it be animal, vegetable or mineral. At least that is my opinion.
