THE FIRST CUT IS THE TOUGHEST

The first article is always treacherous. You don’t know where to begin from. Or rather, you do know where to begin from, it’s just that you don’t know how to. The starting point is called a bang. But getting there is nearly impossible. There exist countless blogs where anyone with an access to the world wide web is pouring their views on anything and everything. You want to do the same, making you no different from all others. Which means that you too like most others will end up writing for yourself. In the initial stages, you will send out links to all your friends and contact on social networking sites. Call it courtesy, call it curiosity, they will click on your link, giving you that much needed opening you have been waiting for. The idle reader will even chip in with a comment. But what then?

Subsequent posts will be followed by more links being sent out and with each successive post, the eyeballs decrease in number. Until such day that the only people visiting (not reading) your post are you yourself and that odd googler who stumbled upon your post due to some key word match. What started out with aspirations of being voted the most popular blog is suddenly in dire need of readership.

So you think about a topic that would appeal to the highest number of readers. Movies? Too obsessive. Politics? Too superficial. Your personal life? Too boring. So how about a post on posts itself. I figure if I keep rambling on for long enough, I will have enough to justify a proper post. Defined as anything in excess of 140 characters.

As I look back at all that I have typed, I realize I have material enough for a proper post. So I guess I’ll stop now and put it up anyways. In the days to come, I’ll yak some more if I feel I have something of substance to say. Otherwise I’ll happily join the queue going down the annals of cyberspace as wannabe bloggers.