What is it that conspires to make us write blogs..? 25 10 16
whilst most ppl only wish to read what other ppl have written? ...something of a gross assumption but there you go!
Living in a family where, apart from one of my granddaughters whose degree course was entitled "Creative Writing", I am the sole writer of material other ppl get to read, as a blogger. Some noted in their more formative years to be able to string words together in well constucted sentences and excelling in learning other languages but overall prefering to keep their own council than share a lot of personal knowledge with others?
A difference then perhaps to do with extroverts and introverts? But essentially one is talking about one's wife and her two sons and my two sons for that matter which is to say someone who would qualify as being my opposite and our two sons who on the whole take after their mother rather their father...
But already I am stepping on thin ice because my eldest son, who of the two in this regard to writing is possibly most like me, would take exception to my putting the matter in writing for others to read.
Wherein lies the truth of the matter then?
Looking back over the years I have been retired since 1st August 2008 writing stuff to do with one's activities was a practice I carried on for most of my working life. Initially this would take the form of conducting experiments and writing the results down before the next activity which quite often would be a follow up action: eg Titrating a boiler water sample for its temporary or permanent degree of hardness and then returning to the Boiler House to add chemicals to soften the water in a "Softener Tower" for that purpose.
When I became a Research and Development Manager with a department employing between 6 and 10 ppl, no piece of work was complete before a report was written of its content.
Taking part in an International Committee with members from Belgium, Britain, Finland, France, Germany and Spain, and the occasional visit from someone from the US, after say 20 years of collaboration, when it came to writing the work up as a "Guide to Good Manufacturing Practice" it was to me the commission was given not because I thought I was particularly suited to the task, but let's just agree it was something that I was pleased to do, and employed at that time as a Management Consultant, the type of work I sought.
If my sons took after their mother being good at learning languages: my wife presently learning her 5th whilst our eldest son got to read Russian and English for his degree (English one of the subjects of his mother's degree also) he also added Japanese to qualify as a teacher to foreigners, plus Latin and French, and later Finnish, taken into every day use. His younger brother, in addition to English and Finnish to take up his second citizenship, after British, also studied German in Secondary Shool. Whereas through my father's extensive letters sent home during WW II, taught me where my poor grasp of English derived, when he miss-spelt words with the same degree of success as I did, in a hand all over the place, more so than his other son, my elder brother whose hand never changed from what we always described as "Copper-plate!"
Writing blogs intially began for an audience I knew, because we had met on vacation in the Highlands of Scotland, only by the way these blogs appearing in places where other people got to read them, etc.
But with the passage of time more and more I began to write for an unknown audience, which, because of their popularity on a day to day basis, inspired me to keep the practice going, when all told I have written of the order of a 1000 blogs, which could only have lasted as long as it has on my present blogsite, since 13 June 2013, because of their being read and in some cases re-read time and again..!?
There my eldest son's take on my last comment would be something like: "How do you it's not an automatic response engineered by the administration for the BlogSpot in question?" Well I'm going to leave it there for this day,and exceptionally perhaps hit the "Publish" button later if I'm still satisfied with the outcome. lol
Living in a family where, apart from one of my granddaughters whose degree course was entitled "Creative Writing", I am the sole writer of material other ppl get to read, as a blogger. Some noted in their more formative years to be able to string words together in well constucted sentences and excelling in learning other languages but overall prefering to keep their own council than share a lot of personal knowledge with others?
A difference then perhaps to do with extroverts and introverts? But essentially one is talking about one's wife and her two sons and my two sons for that matter which is to say someone who would qualify as being my opposite and our two sons who on the whole take after their mother rather their father...
But already I am stepping on thin ice because my eldest son, who of the two in this regard to writing is possibly most like me, would take exception to my putting the matter in writing for others to read.
Wherein lies the truth of the matter then?
Looking back over the years I have been retired since 1st August 2008 writing stuff to do with one's activities was a practice I carried on for most of my working life. Initially this would take the form of conducting experiments and writing the results down before the next activity which quite often would be a follow up action: eg Titrating a boiler water sample for its temporary or permanent degree of hardness and then returning to the Boiler House to add chemicals to soften the water in a "Softener Tower" for that purpose.
When I became a Research and Development Manager with a department employing between 6 and 10 ppl, no piece of work was complete before a report was written of its content.
Taking part in an International Committee with members from Belgium, Britain, Finland, France, Germany and Spain, and the occasional visit from someone from the US, after say 20 years of collaboration, when it came to writing the work up as a "Guide to Good Manufacturing Practice" it was to me the commission was given not because I thought I was particularly suited to the task, but let's just agree it was something that I was pleased to do, and employed at that time as a Management Consultant, the type of work I sought.
If my sons took after their mother being good at learning languages: my wife presently learning her 5th whilst our eldest son got to read Russian and English for his degree (English one of the subjects of his mother's degree also) he also added Japanese to qualify as a teacher to foreigners, plus Latin and French, and later Finnish, taken into every day use. His younger brother, in addition to English and Finnish to take up his second citizenship, after British, also studied German in Secondary Shool. Whereas through my father's extensive letters sent home during WW II, taught me where my poor grasp of English derived, when he miss-spelt words with the same degree of success as I did, in a hand all over the place, more so than his other son, my elder brother whose hand never changed from what we always described as "Copper-plate!"
Writing blogs intially began for an audience I knew, because we had met on vacation in the Highlands of Scotland, only by the way these blogs appearing in places where other people got to read them, etc.
But with the passage of time more and more I began to write for an unknown audience, which, because of their popularity on a day to day basis, inspired me to keep the practice going, when all told I have written of the order of a 1000 blogs, which could only have lasted as long as it has on my present blogsite, since 13 June 2013, because of their being read and in some cases re-read time and again..!?
There my eldest son's take on my last comment would be something like: "How do you it's not an automatic response engineered by the administration for the BlogSpot in question?" Well I'm going to leave it there for this day,and exceptionally perhaps hit the "Publish" button later if I'm still satisfied with the outcome. lol
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