Spelled [blawg, blog] noun, verb, blogged, blog·ging.
Noun. Weblog. Example: The blogger blogged about his blogs.
Let us remember the days when our opinions were wasted on our peers, and our poetry was destined never to see the light of day; a pencil scrawl in a diary. The days when we transported music on a cassette that held only fourteen tracks and waited for hours outside Woolies for a friend to turn up because we had no means of sending a message asking ‘WHR R U? IM COLD N ALONE. LOL.’ Now look at us, typing our every incidental thought and contemplation onto a web log, for the world to peruse.
According to blogging.org, in 2016 there were over THREE HUNDRED MILLION people blogging their wares online. Imagine. This is just slightly less than the entire population of the United States of America hollering the contents of their 1989 diaries really loudly, perhaps traveling the planet with a megaphone in tow. Nonetheless, blogging is now considered to be an art in itself, with the kings and queens of blogging (and vlogging) rewarded with cold, hard cash.
From an author’s perspective, the internet has certainly made engagement with readers real and easier to accomplish; far easier than traveling the entire world donning a sandwich board emblazoned with literary musings.
So, does a writing blog or book blog make a writer more accessible, or less exclusive? A combination of the two, I would suggest. If a writer is in a fortunate enough position to not HAVE to give away words for free; to hole themselves away, knowing that the public wants to read their words so much that they don’t care that they must pay for them, must be a wonderful position to be in. But, for the rest of us, a blog is an effective means of transporting our ideas to the populous. And far, far easier than wandering the world barefoot with a megaphone and some hastily photocopied diary pages.
https://medium.com/@karinaevans/why-writing-a-blog-is-better-than-carrying-a-megaphone-47621662dc8d
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