Comments on: Inaugural Post http://thewritethought.com/blog/index.php/2009/01/01/inaugural-post/ Thoughts on Writing and Publishing Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:27:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Victoria http://thewritethought.com/blog/index.php/2009/01/01/inaugural-post/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Victoria Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:53:04 +0000 http://thewritethought.com/blog/?p=43#comment-4 Your predictions about books are no doubt accurate. The print media will evolve to be efficient but the demand will remain. I can't disagree either with the tough, hard slog writers face in their careers. But I that's a good thing - and that brings me to your idea that blogging will grow. I think blogging will peak and then decline for the very reason that most are not worth reading. As the comment above yours states, good writing is rare and getting rarer. I don't have the time or the taste for weak ideas, badly expressed. And that covers about 75% of the blogs out there. So I'll keep reading the newspaper, The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, National Geographic. Happy New Year! Your predictions about books are no doubt accurate. The print media will evolve to be efficient but the demand will remain. I can’t disagree either with the tough, hard slog writers face in their careers. But I that’s a good thing – and that brings me to your idea that blogging will grow. I think blogging will peak and then decline for the very reason that most are not worth reading. As the comment above yours states, good writing is rare and getting rarer. I don’t have the time or the taste for weak ideas, badly expressed. And that covers about 75% of the blogs out there. So I’ll keep reading the newspaper, The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, National Geographic.

Happy New Year!

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