Are We Drowning in Written Clutter?
I posted a video earlier that discusses an issue close to my heart: write what you know. It is such a simple concept, and often carried out by bloggers these days. After all: writing what you know is so much easier than doing hours of research for one blog post.
However; there are also a lot of people creating a lot of intellectual clutter. I.e. they write what they don’t know. I’ve often wondered what happens to all those websites, cluttering up the web and diluting out my Google ranking… I realize that if they are crap, eventually they will be filtered out and just fall into obscurity until the site owner comes to his senses and just cancels his hosting package. Until then though, which the millions of articles being posted every day I ask again: who’s reading?
I sometimes also wonder about those bloggers who post magazine-size features on their blogs about their cats, dogs and spit-up. Who reads that? I would likely not find the time to read stories that long even if they were posted by a close friend or relative…
Has our attention span really become so short that we need only bite-size material? Or do we need to keep it bite-sized because there is so much written clutter that getting to the point in 200 words or less is a necessity?
I have two good friends who regularly read my work, for which I’m really grateful. Then there is my mother who just claims I write well, but never actually reads anything I’ve written… and then there is me, who should just read AND write more in general.
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