Why blogs die.

As is obvious to those who can count, I haven't updated this blog in a while now. This is because I am very lazy and that is why blogs die.

Or is it?

Maybe the blog is a tool for kickstarting a bored imagination. It's the easiest way to gain public exposure to your writing and that's a part of why I started it.

Like a lot of people, I am very good at the opening burst of enthusiasmm when an idea comes to me. I'm even pretty good at the research. The first draft is also not that hard but I don't even bother with a second draft sometimes and the labrador puppy of my mind has already wandered off to play somewhere else.

I'm writing this post directly into Blogger's input box and you'll be lucky if I get round to correcting my spelling and grammar, never mind checking for clarity of presentation and scintillating imagery.

There lies the problem. A lot of bloggers don't seem to care about their subject matter and that is about the only thing that they convey with any clarity to the reader. If the blogger doesn't care, why should the reader? They drift away and the blog is unread and uncommented on.

I only posted this because I was replying to the comment someone left on my first post, I probably wouldn't have come back to it otherwise.

So leave me a comment, even if it's only a spam ad for NIKEAIRJORDANS or somesuch, I need the occasional prod from the blogosphere to get my homework in on time.