Tommy Collison

I love literature. I love words. I love crafting words into sentences, I love creating segments of my thoughts.

It is definitely a craft, just like woodwork in school or whatever. You have to be able to form these on paper/screen. I mean, it’s no good being very poetic and great with words if you can’t give them a way out of your head and onto paper.

Blogging gives me an outlet to write short articles on literally anything I want to talk about. It lets me practise something I really enjoy and best of all, it’s something I can do whenever, wherever, and on whatever I want.

One of the biggest complaints you hear about when it comes to writers is this ‘writer’s block’. This invisible wall people come up against where the words just don’t come. I mean, if I suffer from verbal diarrhea, this is constipation.

I just don’t get it. If you can’t write on a certain subject, leave it, come back to it later. Alternatively, come at it from a different angle. One of my primary school teachers always said that there are two sides to every story, and it’s true. You can write about a certain subject in so many different ways, so why not approach the problem differently?

Blogs are perfect for people who aspire to be authors or poets, but have a day job and can’t make a living out of it. What happens is you get a free playing field to put your work onto, people can come up to it and read it and review it. If it’s positive, then you know you have what it takes. Obviously the logistics of being a writer would have to be examined. Perhaps you don’t have the right lifestyle to be one. Have a wife and kids? Yeah, they might mind slightly if you’re locking yourself in your garden shed for 8 hours every day. Just something to consider.

I can’t see myself being an author. I did when I was younger, but when you’re 6 or 7, you’re blissfully unaware of so many things, including the fact that it’s very difficult to actually make a living from it. It’s the perfect sidejob, though. I just can’t see myself doing it because it all depends on you being able to deliver quality stuff again and again and again. I mean, the quality of TT would dip sometimes, so I know I couldn’t keep it up!

I mean, basically, blogging is perfect because it’s somewhere I can write as much or as little as I want. It’s somewhere I can write about anything and everything, and unless you’re one of those dunderheads who uses a premium WP theme – it’s free!