I Finally Decided to Stop Procrastinating and Start Blogging

I have been throwing around the idea of writing a blog for some time now. This of course, being a journalism student, is a wonderful platform to publish my writing that is cost free. Why was it even a question for me? Why has it taken me so long? Why don’t I just work under my photography blog? With the ease at which any Joe-Blow can now publish a blog, why do I need to waste so much brain space on this? And today, the answer became clear to me.

As an aspiring writer, be it a journalist, opinion writer or creative writer, I need to find common ground upon which my blog and therefore my writing, would be based. I need to find something, a theme, a topic, a common element that would ensure my writing was consistent and drew in a committed readership. The problem herein, is that I am a person who becomes aggressively passionate about “things”. What are these “things” you ask? They are topics, current affairs or long unrecognised truths that are not given the time and dedication they deserve in the mass media. But everyone wants to be “different”, right? Here’s the thing, I don’t want to write about these things because they are “different”, I want to do it because I believe they are far more deserving of my time than what I personally consider to be information covered in a mass media sphere that is far too flooded with what the media wants us to read, not what we always want to know.

So why, after months on end of procrastination, have I finally decided to start my blog for my journalism and writing? Because today I met a man. This man was a total stranger on an evening flight from Melbourne to Sydney. A simple question about the textbook I was reading on media relations lead to a full flight length conversation. If there is anything I was to take away from our discussions about politics, the media, the future of media and how ten years from now we may very well be living with computers in us, it was that I should start writing a blog and find something as my niche, as the core of my blog that would keep consistency throughout it. While this is something I aspire to achieve, the only promise I can make is that my aim will be to give you, my readers, something to take away. I want to give you new information, to feed your hungry souls and offer something more than the masses.