Ninety Seven

Day Ninety-Seven:  I think this is the right number

But sometimes I screw them up, and that’s okay because in all realness here I can just go back and edit them.  Did you know that?  I can edit my blogs to say whatever I’d like.  I can also manipulate the day posted that appears on the side, so when one comes in late (a-la-right now) it can magically be posted back in time.  It’s practically a time machine, blogspot, so, be jealous of my blogging abilities.

Speaking of my blogging abilities I’ve been looking at blogs and I realised how much I really do like them.  Remember when Perez Hilton was the thing?  It had a often-postage time slot and was usually well received and interesting, funny, different, because it posted what was relevant to him.  I think blogs are so interesting in that way, because they aren’t updated as frequently as say Twitter or Facebook, but has enough substance that maybe a post, two, or three a day would suffice.  I would love to write a blog for the rest of my life, it’s like the subversive “New New Journalism,” as if we weren’t updated enough on everyone’s lives within social media.

I never thought I’d want to work in social media because I had always dreamed of becoming a teacher, but as the technology and websites progress I feel like I could probably do something with this whole media thing, seeing as it is so different for each person and can be personalised so quickly and seemingly effortlessly.  Oh internet, how you’ve changed our lives forever.

I do miss my notebooks and pens, and this summer I’m hoping to finish that notebook I had originally planned to be part of this project but the poems didn’t fall from my brain as easily as I had hoped for as long as I had hoped, so it’s still sitting beside my bed waiting for me.  I was hoping those poems would be published someday, but I’m starting to think that maybe publishing is on its way out.  Is that a silly thing to have said?  Do people still buy and read books?  Or do they prefer short snippets like Youtube videos that are widely accessible and free?  Do they prefer short blog posts that are relevant to their own lives and accessible from anywhere in the world that supports a computer and the internet?

I love books don’t get me wrong, and I know a lot of people who love books, but there is also the curse that paperbacks have that they cost so much and yet you read them once and them place them on a shelf or loan away.  Maybe I’m just naïve here, but shouldn’t we be moving with the times?  Become more nostalgic about flipping through a book and move on to the future?  Or is this just my blindness showing again?

Well maybe I prefer websites due to the accessibility motive, is it still literature if it’s online?  Is it still worthy if it’s read aloud or on a kobo?  Does a story lose its worth through the medium in which it is told?  Or are some mediums just traditional and others progressive?  Could I be just babbling on about nothing that matters to anyone else here?  I wish I could say that I still love books with the intimacy in which I used to when I was younger and in need of an escape but somehow Youtube and video have replaced that emptiness.

And writing, writing has never stopped.  But now I write on here for you, or write for the stage, instead of writing short stories and fantasy novels.  Have I lost the touch?  The feeling of superiority towards books and fiction?  Stories?  I love stories it’s all I do if not telling stories!  But I would dare to say that oral story has taken over lately, blame it on the tech, but it has happened.

I’m not complaining, how could I?  It inspires and provokes interaction between people who would otherwise never converse. It evokes emotions and thoughts that would otherwise never happen.  It reaches more people daily than publishing ever could.  I guess what I’m trying to work out is how could a balance occur?  Or will we be losing our bookstores just as fast as the record stores soon?

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