Blogging is different enough that it has become it’s own animal – at least as far as writers go.

If freed from the shackles of sending copy to clients, I’d probably still do my writing with pen and paper.

Word processors add very little to the writing process (but a lot to the commercial process).

But blogging is about connection and commentary – something you don’t get from pen and paper and even magazines.

It’s probably accurate to say that most of us have a preferred form of writing, but we’d still write if we had to use charcoal on stone.

Quick question: Which issue of Newsweek did the review appear?

When I originally started blogging, it was for the release. I wanted to get thoughts on the page, and since it was the new thing, I gave it a try. Now I feel differently, and use blogging mainly as a marketing tool and to share ideas.

I still do think that blogging, as opposed to other forms of public writing, is much more personal. Bloggers allow readers access to certain topics and ideas that those readers would never had unless they had stumbled upon the writer’s journal.

You ask where would I write? I relish the idea of writing feature-length articles in magazines. That’s my ongoing goal. While it’s great to develop an audience of other bloggers, moving my words beyond the world of cyberspace and into the physical realm of glossies is my intention.

The immediacy and interconnectivity of blogging is a buzz. New ideas spark new conversations which are picked up by other blogs, and so on.

However, I also enjoy the project aspect of developing a larger project like a book, or a feature article. So I don’t have a definitive answer on this… just adding more words to the conversation. Ain’t blogging grand?

Yvonne