Blogger Rights

It is annoying to be told that you shouldn't blog certain topics because they are too personal. First of all, no one has the right to tell a writer what to write. A writer assumes, as a writer,  the rules of good taste and  attention to the usual legal aspects, but other than  naming names or locations, what goes into a blog is the penner's unilateral decision. On occasion, we bloggers or writers  as I like to name those who publish even in this modest way, are accused by irate acquaintances that you have "done them wrong" when, in fact, merely you may have used a related event to describe a situation concerning them in part, upon which you want to comment. These sorts read into blogs something sinister that lurks exclusively in their own minds. As a blogger, I have no intention of cutting topics or denying experiences in order to expand upon them in writing. That is, folks, what it's all about. It's just a blog among millions and nothing serious and world shattering. I suppose my advice to such individuals, is to avoid reading blogs that you choose to take personally. If your name isn't in there, it "ain't" about you. Bloggers are diarists or journalists who throw out their ideas and life stories without trepidation. And well they should. I always use Samuel Pepys and his diary as proof. He posted his observations and very human takes on what was going on around him and also those right under his nose. What arose from his opinions and comment on the day, made for all of us, a record of his times. I suppose bloggers do the same even though on a minute scale. For most of us, it is impossible not to run to the keyboard and hammer in whatever emotions or happenings dig deeply enough to cause the passion to get it all down in words. When that urge enters, nothing else matters but to record your senses of it in how you viewed the situation that occurred. It's a kind of purging of the soul, if there is such a thing. Also, as is part of everyone, often times an epiphany seems to occur within one and the only thing that matters is to hie off to the computer corner and get it all down before the moment disappears. It is not great literature, nor is it of any importance to a single other person perhaps, but to the inveterate blogger, it is all that matters and it must, under any circumstances of time or place, be set down verbally. I suppose after the initial release of the blogging song is over, comes the matter of editing. Editing is the worst part if you are, as I am, one of these who copies written pieces "just in case". Right after having checked the bit by reading it closely and publishing it to the site, you read the printed copy and there you see that you have missed a punctuation or left out a key word or have used a term badly and back to the "edit" page you go. The sneerers out there will surely laugh at you, you think, therefore, you read the piece again and, sure enough, you do find another spot where you might have expressed yourself more succinctly and less expansively, thus a further editing is needed . Editing never ends unless you do, and there comes a time to quit.  Each time you return to your "bloody blog" as mine was described probably accurately, once, you become another "hit". It adds up to making you look rather numerically popular but, in truth, it is only you, examining your blog yet another time. Alas. It's a mad, mad world out there and blogging makes it fun and in a way, creative. Whether anyone reads it, or likes it, or not.