Word Play for Writers

I wish I could afford to include HBO in my cable TV lineup, because I would have liked to have seen the series "The Wire". Or, at least I want to view the segment in which the the city editor "Gus" shouts to the newsroom:

"Anybody threatening to commit an act of daily journalism?"

When I saw this quotation mentioned in a real-life newspaper, my mind went immediately to blogging, rather than the newsroom. Here, in this blog, is where I commit an act of journalism daily. Some may quibble about the term "journalism" being applied to what I write and surely to what many others dribble or spew into the cybershphere. But the phrase "act of daily journalism" really resonated. So did using the verb "commit", because that's what a blog feels like to me, a commitment. And some bloggers do wield their electronic clubs like weapons, while others feel threatened by them, but let's not go there today.

Committing to write a daily blog post is a way to approach tackling a larger project such as a novel. It can also pull you away from a Writer's Block. If you're serious about becoming a professional, paid by someone else to perform acts of any kind of regular writing, a blog with some substance demonstrates reliability and dependability. A blog proves you can handle an assignment ... in a small manner. It's a beginning. We all start the writing life unpublished. Don't let yours end that way.