They were mere status messages before. But now, it’s undeniably the era of plurk, twitter, tumblr and all micro-blogging sites.
See, I’ve been using my plurk for exactly seven hundred and thirty days now (I celebrated my second year anniversary last September 08), and I realized how micro-blogging actually affected my way of writing. Long before plurk entered my life, I write blogs the way an amateur novelist would write a “brief summary” of her novel. Thus, the minuscule scroll bar depicting the entire length of one specific blogpost. Then plurk happened and everything changed. I lost my ability to string words and I find it difficult to write about one topic without my mind wandering to some far off universe. Later after reading this whole post, you’d see how messed up of a writer I am now. :(
In today’s world, there is clamor for wrapping up wit in one or two sentences. Brief, straight to the point. That’s the reason why you can never go wrong with one-liners. And with the ability to do such one-liners, there are chances of giving up the skill of crafting lengthy but interesting write-ups.
Although some people may prefer having the shortest way possible, I, on the other hand, am such a sucker for lengthy but good descriptions – and it kills me that I’m having difficulty pulling off one now. Gahd, I used to be a fair enough creative non-fiction writer! And now, I end up writing short stories because I’m so used to hitting the spot with two to three sentences!
Okay, I’ll finish this blogpost now because I’m starting to get bored. It takes a lot of active and effective brain cells to conjure a witty sentence, but it takes more than that to write a lengthy essay that is never boring.
And I would be more than willing to pour coins on all wishing wells in the world just to be on the latter. :(
See, I’ve been using my plurk for exactly seven hundred and thirty days now (I celebrated my second year anniversary last September 08), and I realized how micro-blogging actually affected my way of writing. Long before plurk entered my life, I write blogs the way an amateur novelist would write a “brief summary” of her novel. Thus, the minuscule scroll bar depicting the entire length of one specific blogpost. Then plurk happened and everything changed. I lost my ability to string words and I find it difficult to write about one topic without my mind wandering to some far off universe. Later after reading this whole post, you’d see how messed up of a writer I am now. :(
In today’s world, there is clamor for wrapping up wit in one or two sentences. Brief, straight to the point. That’s the reason why you can never go wrong with one-liners. And with the ability to do such one-liners, there are chances of giving up the skill of crafting lengthy but interesting write-ups.
Although some people may prefer having the shortest way possible, I, on the other hand, am such a sucker for lengthy but good descriptions – and it kills me that I’m having difficulty pulling off one now. Gahd, I used to be a fair enough creative non-fiction writer! And now, I end up writing short stories because I’m so used to hitting the spot with two to three sentences!
Okay, I’ll finish this blogpost now because I’m starting to get bored. It takes a lot of active and effective brain cells to conjure a witty sentence, but it takes more than that to write a lengthy essay that is never boring.
And I would be more than willing to pour coins on all wishing wells in the world just to be on the latter. :(