My Life on the Net

To say I have read many books would be a very large overstatement. Unfortunately, being aware of my upbringing reminds me of how little I wasfascinated by the printed page. Needless to say, I was a tv junkie at a young age.

The odd thing about this realisation is that, as I’m entering my adulthood, is that I feel bad about abandoning this medium. Sure, I love print and while I would never pick up a newspaper unless there was literally nothing to read and no openwifi connection, I’d at least give it a go. The odd thing about my aversion to the printed page is that I love libraries. Now, while I do consider them a large waste of space and an extremely high fire risk–the knowledge theyposess is somewhat astronomical.

I once talked about how I would love the idea of a cheap eBook reader, and while I have been enjoying reading some of Cory Doctorow’s books on my iTouch, the printed page still holds some sort of essence that has yet to be transferred to the electronic page. Maybe it has, but I can’t afford those expensive readers that Sony and Amazon release.

While I am dyslexic, I was somewhat depressed over my English scores. I did well in practice but a D in the final exam wasn’t good (however, it did get appealed to a B…) and as my time came to an end at high school I really started to enjoy the subject.

I look back at some of the authors I admire and wonder how they do it. Then I start watching vlogbrothers and one of them, John Green, is an award winning teenage author. He’s been writing since a young age and the idea that I want to create books at this old age of eighteen may be a little much for this brain to handle. Sometimes I try my best in every subject. Shouldn’t I just settle for one?

Well, ever since I was young I’ve tried to excel myself in almost every subject. I started with my education, which was somewhat difficult. Sport didn’t work out and I found myself enjoying other more technical things. I guess I’m like the Borg, I always want to become ‘perfect’ and become great at everything. While it provides me with some respect as I can create something good very quickly–it means I’m no master of one particular subject. My bio goes… “Student, amateur photographer, web designer & developer,videographer , blogger, techie, gamer and a few other things” As you can see, I’m rather varied. But unlike the Borg, I don’t have any implants in my body - which is a plus.

I guess that’s one of the reasons why I want to spread my wings yet again into writing and have already enrolled in this years’ National Novel Writing Month in November–where I have to write a 50,000 word short novel during the month. It’ll be hard but at the end I think it will be utterly rewarding. Not only will it make my writing as a novel writer better (I’ve always had ideas but never felt I could keep my attention on one large novel) but also hopefully help make my writing a blogger much more interesting to read.

The novel is a grand method of sharing yourself and sharing your ideas that have been clogged up in your head for years at a time. But this is not the only reason I want to write and read more. There are other reasons, such as the fact I had three whole years in which I didn’t have a stable Englishcurriculum . But none of that matters, I just want to get better at writing and through this make myself better as a whole. So, I hope I won’t be the only one going down thisroller-coaster.