{"id":2,"date":"2002-04-16T23:59:55-04:00","date_gmt":"2002-04-17T07:59:55+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/wordpress\/?p=2"},"modified":"2002-04-16T23:59:55-04:00","modified_gmt":"2002-04-17T07:59:55+00:00","slug":"dear-diary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2002\/04\/16\/dear-diary\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Diary…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve never been one who’s seen the point of so-called “weblogs” or “blogs”, and also never had much of an interest in creating my own. I kept a diary when I was younger, but found it a chore, and the content was fairly mundane as a result.<\/p>\n\n

“Dear Diary,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

(Yup, I actually started each entry with “Dear Diary”.)<\/p>\n\n

Today I had pancakes for breakfast. I went to school and did a spelling test.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

“Dear Diary,<\/p>\n\n

Today is Wednesday. We played baseball in gym class.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

And so on. I don’t think I kept at it for more than a month.<\/p>\n\n

But I’ve discovered a growing personal interest in writing, and every successful writer I’ve encountered has said the same thing: the way to become a good<\/em> writer is to write. (The same people also tell you to write only if you have something to say; but I’m going to ignore that advice for now.)<\/p>\n\n

So why do I think this will go any further than my old diary? I’m not sure I do, but I’m going to give it a try. Do I think this will add anything of value instead of contributing to the preponderance of useless clutter (I won’t glorify it as “content”) on the ’Net? Unlikely. This page will be, if nothing else, an experiment to see if I have, or can develop, some marginal level of talent. That’s all I’ll promise—as the saying goes, “Never precede a demonstration with anything more predictive than ‘Watch this!’”<\/p><\/div>

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