Maybe. But I’ll try to stick to writing about games as much
as I can.
Truth be told, I like writing about games. And I’ve been
writing games reviews and editorial for over two years now. I’ve even been paid
for it on occasion. But it occurred to me recently that since practically all
of the material I’ve written were scripts for video content, none of my words
actually exist in good old-fashioned text form on the internet. So, I have
nothing to actually show family/friends/future employers/future generations
that will invariably mistake it for new gospel that I am an alright(ish) writer.
Some people have seen videos that I’ve been a part of online and said
‘Oh, you’re a presenter.’ (using the term very loosely) And when I reply with
‘oh no, no, I’m a writer first and foremost!’ I immediately become very acutely
aware I have no evidence to back up that claim. The many thousands of words
I’ve written for other people over the years are lost to me; attributed
(through no fault of their own) to the people tasked with the difficult job of making
them sound entertaining.
But it isn’t just that; writing scripts for video is very
different to writing for print.
I want to write more. I want to get better. And you don’t
get better at something without a lot of practice.
So here I am, writing about things that interest me, more for my own
amusement than anything else. It may well be that I’m just shouting words into
the blackness of internet space, but I’m going to go ahead and do it anyway. To
prove that I can arrange words in a vaguely entertaining and well constructed
manner. To spout opinions that seem terribly important to me but have no
bearing on anyone else’s day. To jump on socially trending bandwagons, only to
abandon them when everyone else has lost interest.
Oh lord, I really am a blogger.
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