Nobody is born interesting
Being interesting, in writing for instance, is a skill that must be practiced like any other, primarily by spending a lot of time being uninteresting while figuring out what appeals to people. I know this, and have repeated it to myself many times since I figured it out about a year ago (yeah, I’m a late bloomer), and yet I refuse to post to my blog (excepting today) unless I think that what I post will somehow change the world. Periodical writing can indeed change the world, but such writing tends to come from extensively-practiced professionals, and even then the phenomenon is quite rare. I have even set goals for myself in the past to write to quizzical.net every day; but when the time comes to do it, I note that I don’t have anything interesting to say and I move on to other things.
The problem with such thinking, of course, is that I will never learn to harvest the interesting thoughts that come to me from time to time if I do not first learn to harvest thoughts in general. And surely, even with my lack of experience in writing, I can still be more interesting than some random person’s cat blog.
So if you’re reading this, it’s most likely because quizzical.net has become wildly popular as a result of my daily writing practice and you’ve decided to go digging through the archives. As you examine the shoddy quality of this article, remember: everyone starts modestly.