Writing in the Cloud

CLOUD CRAP, GLUTEN FREE, SECRET WISH

Writing.  What's that all about?  Everybody is a writer in this digital age.  Everybody writes one way or another, and everybody who wants to gets published.  It may only be a kind of self-publication, but it is publication nonetheless.  Thanks to technology, every man has the potential to share his thoughts and experience with everyone else on the planet.  My posting on a blog is open and available for anyone on the planet to read.  I am not dependent on formal publication to get my writing out.  Everyone is competing for attention.  The availability of so much information of all kinds can make it difficult to stand out.  All the bloggers and tweeters are running around trying to figure out how to entice their fellow mortals to read their crap rather than the other guy's crap.  They're all little emperors trying to increase the number and power of their followers.  With so many people who have so much to say, how can one separate the chaff from the wheat?  Who has the time?  And, a lot of people like the chaff.  Not everyone wants the wheat.  Gluten free world.  Gluten free culture.

I have a secret wish, cradled here in my obscurity.  It's a wish and a theory that I would like to test.  It has to do with writing and the power of words.  It is also one more test of myself.  I don't mind trying one more thing.  I'm used to mediocrity and indifference.  I'm not afraid to fail.

I have a blog on Google.  The blog provides unlimited public access to the posts I put there.  Do my words have the power to attract attention without an extraordinary effort to promote them?  Is it enough for them to be there, available for public consumption?  I have to tell you that I believe an indifferent public will be indifferent still, if I advertise my blog.  There's something in the words themselves, the quality of the writing, that determines the response to them.  That's my theory.  It may well be that, as I continue to publish posts to my blog, there will not be much interest in them.  That would not surprise me.  But, I like the idea of putting stuff out there.  I like the idea of making stuff available for public consumption.  I have as much right as anybody else on this dreadful planet to publish my crap in the cloud.