I had originally posted this blog to tell the world of my exploits here in Germany, as well as vent about any old topic. Thus far that’s what I’ve been doing, and have only created a post if I felt I had something to say, or share.

Admittedly, I did have a bit of writer’s block at the beginning (and subsequently didn’t advertise my blog), but has pretty much subsided since. I feel like blog topics come pretty naturally, and this should be good to keep the content interesting. But another unpredicted side effect was its effect on my writing abilities. I always felt I wrote fairly well (well at least back in high school), but recently realized I hadn’t really had to do crap for writing in college and sort of lost my touch. AP credits got me out of all the freshman English classes, which I rejoiced at the time (and don’t regret it). I took a few courses which caused me to have to write essays or whatever, but this was rarely more than once every 10 weeks or so, and not enough to keep the compository skills flowing. This blog has changed all that, as I put quite a bit of effort into the style, content, and choice of words for each and every post.

Yet, it still seems that today’s society is causing communication to become so short and terse that good writing has become sort of a lost art. The pervasiveness of instant messaging clients, quick emails, text messaging, and expensive mobile phones have brought on this tendency, and I think our writing abilities are suffering accordingly.

So one more reason to embrace the self-publishing revolution!