Why write anything? There's no reason to anymore. Everyone and their grandmother has some form of camera. Record, upload, and everyone can see what you have to say. There are those of us, however, that find the camera to be unsatisfying. Why, you may ask. If we have the means to speak to a wide, diverse audience, how could you dislike it? When you look at a screen, you can see who is doing the talking. There is nothing left to imagination. That can be a problem for people like me. I want you to see me, not through a lens, but through these words. Envision a small room. The walls are painted a bleached yellow color. They aren't important. That's the point of bleached yellow. You don't see it. What you do see is a desk. It's small, but it seems to be serving its purpose well enough. Who is seated at that desk? He's a male, maybe in his late twenties. You feel energy flowing behind his brown eyes. Curiosity. Although he is still, you feel him moving, never losing focus for a minute. He speaks. There is a foreign accent, but it isn't distracting. You never feel like you have to wade through it to get the words coming from his mouth. Instead you compare it to an acoustic guitar. It has a unique sound, but nothing that stands out and should be payed too much attention to. Instead you listen to the notes it plays.
You have an image in your head, now. This is how I want you to think of me. Did you notice the key wording there? This is how I want you to think of me. It isn't who I am. Now for the kicker. I've been lying to you. I find videos to be just as good as writing when it comes to getting the message across. But I wanted you to believe I was better than our age of technology. Our age of never missing a beat. The truth is, I am beneath it. I am afraid. Instead of the tall, dark, and handsome figure I just put before you, looking upon me would yield an image of a trembling, frightened boy, trying to be heard over the thousands of voices speaking at once. And you would see that he's failing.
Some write to tell a story. Some write to tell their side. Some write to tell the facts. I write to hide. If you're into this introspective, sending-a-message style of writing, let me know. I would be happy to keep you supplied with something to think about. You can choose how to take this piece. An application to participate in conversation on Hubski. A declaration that I am a voice to be listened to. A humble offering to the grizzled veterans who want to defend this wonderful home from the squeals and screeches infecting the rest of the internet. However you choose to view this, I give you my salutations and my reguards. I hope you enjoyed.
I wanna start by welcoming you to Hubski. Now, don't tag Hubski #Hubski when it's got nothing to do with the website. Lastly, I nominate you to instead carry on with my tag, #vaguequestionsbypablo, because our slathering, ranting brick-wall text writing styles are eerily similar.
Using the tag #Hubski was not right. I knew this typing it. My only hope was that it would be justified. I want people to see this. If I must sin to do deeds of good, knowingly abusing a label to give the readers quality content they can digest and not glumly click past on their way to the grave, then I will.
In addition, #vaguequestionsbypablo is the best thing ever.
I can't say I'm entirely sure what you said prior to this but I'm laughing pretty hard, and thanks man.
You really ought to change the tag. But yeah, welcome to Hubski and feel free to share your writing on an ongoing basis. Cheers
A camera can't capture that which does not exist. Nor can a video. Editing is hard to do, takes ages, and fades with time. Writing is ageless, writing has impact, and writing can create worlds far larger, more diverse, and more influential than what any other medium can create (aside maybe user-driven video games).
That I think is the thing I like with writing. While write certainly requires talent anyone can show anything with it. Only imaginations sets limits and you can put something on paper exactly the way you envisioned it.
And writing may require talent, but anyone can do it nonetheless, and not get discouraged unless they post online. In my experience, people are REALLY constructive on writing areas too, always happy to give advice and be constructive. I wish there was a fan-fiction like site for people just writing random stuff not based on fan fiction (but maybe some of fan-fiction mixed in)
Fictionpress? That's like fanfiction.net but for original stories, I guess wattpad is kind of like that too.
I did enjoy your writing and it does raise the question of whether we like writing because it gives more control to us than other media and whether we like to see writing as superior because of that or because we believe it is from a non-selfish standpoint.