born to write

… Writers are a very rare breed. That's what thousands of job-hunters have told me, over the years. And for years I kind of believed them – until “blogging” came along. (“Blog” is shorthand, of course, for “web log.”) At the moment (4/8/07) there are at least 70 million people who have created their own personal blogs, on the internet, with 1.4 million updates to those blogs each day, and 120,000 new people starting to keep a blog every 24 hours.[1] Yikes! Let's face it: we human beings are “a writing people,” and we only need a topic we have a real passion for, or interest in, for the writing genie to spring forth from within each of us, pen or keyboard in hand.[2]

1. The primary site for tracking these numbers is http://www.technorati.com/. For commentary on the “Blogosphere,” see http://www.sifry.com/. (David Sifry is the founder and CEO of Technorati.)
2. Though, with the rise of Twitter, and “twittering” – a kind of mini-blog restricted to just 140 characters or spaces – plus the more ancient IM (Instant Messaging), it could be argued that we like our writing to be brief, rather than lengthy (see www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17888481/site/newsweek/).

source: What Color Is Your Parachute? by Richard Nelson Bolles

the newsweek link no longer works. i was thinking of selling the book. i've had it for a while already yet i haven't really read it. Bolles is quite a joker. i think i shall keep the book for now. i should get my brother to read it. he's been in the pits about his job.

if i'm born to write, why's it so hard to do my assignments!!! when i need to be lengthy, i can't find the words. when i need to be brief, i have verbal diarrhea.