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When I took my baby steps on Blogosphere a couple of years ago, I was all chuffed up, raring to go and conquer the length and breadth of the World Wide Web. What I had not bargained for was the various obstacles strewn on my path towards blogging glory. To start with, I was clueless about the kind of topics I should choose to write. Would anyone be benefited if I write about ‘The best excuses for missing work’? How relevant would be the topic ‘An idiot’s guide to cooking ready-to-eat food’? How many people would give a damn if I were to write about ‘What would happen if sea water were to lose its salinity’?
The next hurdle confronted me-frequency of my posts. How often should I blog? Someone said, not too often, lest you are considered a spammer. Another said, don’t make yourself scarce on Blogosphere, else you are sure to be forgotten (It’s an altogether different matter that people, after reading my posts, wish they could). So I was damned if I did and doomed if I didn’t.
Then came the dilemma over the form of writing to adopt. Should it be prose, poetry or story? What I call as poetry may seem nothing but a mushy soufflé of unintelligible words to the indifferent reader. And, of course, I didn’t have the luxury of opting to tell a tale, for the simple reason that I didn’t know how to spin an interesting yarn. That left with me with plain prose. Now, this essay form is a bit tricky to handle. It is not as if you had a story to tell. Anyone will listen to a story. But to manage to trick and trap a reader who has strayed on to your blog, takes more than a little effort with my kind of narration.
Well, now that I have managed to plunge into the big blog world, I’m hoping that atleast a handful of gullible netizens fall prey to my devious designs. You see, I’m an incorrigible optimist!
