"The Challenge of Pursuit"

To be completely honest blogging isn’t my preferred way of getting noticed as a writer. The idea of having to work up a sort of “corporate ladder” to be noticed as a writer and a public figure is much more appealing than blogging. To be this seems like the easy way to get noticed and personally I like having to work for my success. The satisfaction of knowing that I worked for the roll is exhilarating while there isn’t much of that feeling know that I took the lazy way out and used the internet.

Don’t get me wrong, I can certainly see the benefits in blogging versus publishing your writing in the newspaper or a magazine. The fact that blogging is so much easier and much less work is a huge advantage on its own. I can be lying in my bed bored out of my head and decide I would try and write something to pass the time and a few days later everyone is reading it. I can admit that that is an appealing thought; the vast number of people who have access to your blog when compared to the much smaller amount of people accessible to a newspaper is definitely a plus. More people have the chance to read what you post online and it’s there forever rather than until there is no more space.

Blogs also offer anonyms writing about topics that may be personal or “touchy”, in other words too sensitive for a newspaper of magazine. There is much less worry about who you might be offending and who the written piece of being directed to like it may be for a newspaper. Never the less how easily accessible blogs are to the general public can be a very bad thing. The sensitive piece you may have written could be posted somewhere else under someone else’s name or perhaps your being turned in as a report. It is much easier to plagiarize a blog than it is a newspaper article.

I guess what I’m to say is that I would much rather work under the stricter guideline and challenging environment. I want to feel like I deserve the title of a “public figure” and I want to know that I worked for that title. Ah, but alas, I must blog for one of my classes so I'm stuck taking the easy way out. Oh well. I don't mind.

Foot note: The title is a quote from Tucker Max, (link contains very, I repeat very, mature content) a crude man who mocks the world through a style of writing similar to blogs. In one story he talks about his need to have sex with a Little Person and why that need was so strong. “The Challenge of Pursuit”. I felt it fitting since I want the challenge of becoming known through starting from dirt and working my way up.