Blog comments are welcome: the good, the bad and the ugly. It means that someone read your stuff and reacted. It feels wonderful and makes your efforts rewarding. When a blog comment is clearly a cheap personal shot it is deleted immediately and forgotten at the same rate. The ones that are taken seriously are those that show maturity and thought. These allow for consideration no matter how negative. Writing is something inate. You are either a writer or you write. There is a difference. The former, cannot help writing and everything goes on the page: all feelings, all reactions. And while there is editing later, the core remains. The latter works too hard at technical matters and thus reports rather than expresses. An analogy is the difference between an artist and a draftsman but both are writing in its many forms and both are valid. The artist pays attention to creating for himself and others, an impression, while the draftsman attends to the rules. I have enjoyed all of the comments to my little blog or my "bloody blog" as one lady put it. At least she had the intelligence to offer reasons why the chagrin. There have been comments by the very young, unfortunately not well thought-out, but welcome nevertheless and the very old and the folks who keep on reading it. I happen to be fond of blogs and read them constantly myself especially the ones that are from-the-heart. Bloggers, let's blog on fearlessly!
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