Every once in awhile, in a daze where the moon is blue and my mind renders no immediate thought, a title of a post comes to mind and I have no clue of what the context may be about. So, off the cuff and raw/uncut as I can be....this would be one of those times.
I told my sweet and even-tempered co-worker Ann Guy that I want to write about something that has never been written about on this forum. At the same time, I wanted to make sure it fits the parameters of what Active-Rain is all about. I can honestly say I've read thousands of blogs and will do so ongoing, but rarely does one catch my eye as being off-the-charts fantastic.
The featured posts are for the most part, very good. The posts with a large amount of commentary & comments tend to be interesting and thought provoking. And as the nature of the beast would have it, a lot of very good stuff gets unnoticed. Yet, I get bored easily. Especially if unchallenged and reading the same old crap over & over & over again. I want something different, something unique, something special that will challenge my world and awake my thoughts. Then, I thought about it. It's not so much what you write (though subject matter remains key to a large extent), it is how you write it. I'm not looking for Shakespeare or King, but I am looking for those who make their posts fun to read.
Don't get me wrong, there are an abundance of talented writers & knowledgeable professionals here. I just want to push the envelope to some degree. Now, that may mean writing Hard-Core Real Estate Stuff, Consumer-Oriented Material, a better way to garner attention to your writing...or maybe even trying to conquer or at least have a stranglehold on Google...
I've said it before and will say it again. I will always look for those words, that sentence, that paragraph, that explains it all. While I will never find it, the search is freaking on!
I love the fact that Active-Rain has reached the point where more than 50,000 people share whatever they have to contribute. And posts & contributions, no matter how mundane, will continue to be churned out in great numbers. It's not what you write, it's how you write.
We all have a role, in life & this forum. While I'd love to sit and chastise those who write what I perceive as crap, is it? The contributions are many and as long as we all share what we got, the wheels will spin and we will move forward. Folks, to some extent, we are a team. I may not read you, like you, know you, or have a clue that you even exist...same goes for your perception of me. But, if you give me YOU in what your write, I don't give a flying rat's beady arse how bad your grammar or spelling may be, how misconstrued your facts might be, you gave you. This forum is better for it.
With every post, the wheels spin. Yet, the highway is long...we have a long drive ahead. Keep on blogging, contributing, and whether the stuff you post has been posted or talked about before, it comes from you. That, in my estimation, is very important. That is what makes this different and very real. The wheels go round and we aren't driving, but I'm very sure we can be contributing passengers along the way.
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