A shout-out to my fans!

Today I experienced quite possibly my most rewarding moment yet as a blogger:

I was asked why I hadn't published a post in awhile as its appearance was/is - apparently - hotly anticipated...at least by this one person.

Well break out the HTML (I don't know HTML) and rambling dribble and let's get this party started!

I'm sorry to say that I'm not entirely certain why it has taken me so long to follow up that string of Globe/NFL posts with another. I guess I have been busy. I guess I've had other things on my mind. I guess I just...didn't have anything to say? Do I now? We'll see.

I write this post with the acute (and somewhat painful) awareness that its content will shortly be picked apart (or, at the very least, read) not only by my fandom of one, but also by this creative writing group of which I'm a part, who have all been given this link as my monthly creative submission (as to whether there is, in fact, anything "creative" about my blog postings, I'll leave you - yes, you! - to be the judge).

Why did I submit my blog as creative writing? I would be lying if I didn't admit that I have done so at least in part because I failed to prepare anything else. My cover story (you know, what you tell people instead of the truth), though, suggests that there is something to be gained by exposing a group of creative minds to the world of blogging and allowing them free reign to sound off. What type of writing is blogging? What is required for a blog to be "good"? Do blogs require gimmicks to be successful? Does anyone even care about blogging? Who are blogs written for/to? Is blogging selfish; more selfish than writing in its traditional forms? Is blogging creative, journalistic (as in, of the journal, or, of the newspaper), private, public? So many questions which likely elevate the importance of what I and so many others are doing here to an unrealistic degree, but interesting nonetheless. I think.

I also wonder about (my recent post regarding) the shift in focus from personal to pop cult blog. Has my blog (even in its infancy) become simply the poor (wo)man's version of the EW or EOnline front page? And if so, how lame is that? Who cares what I think about Kate Winslet or Drew Barrymore? Who cares about Kate Winslet or Drew Barrymore more generally?

Evidently there are many questions to be asked and many of the questions asked above all relate to separate (albeit intertwined) issues. Perhaps I will have some answers after meeting with the group and hearing their thoughts and hopefully the topic of blogging will foster good conversation regarding the nature of writing and its reception.

Then again, maybe I'll look like a(n) (ill-prepared) fool.

I will be sure to let you (yes, you!) know.