At the present time I have five blog entries I am yet to publish because I keep revising them. It really is an amazing phenomenon. This whole blogging thing has made me a much better writer.

When I started this thing back in 2002 I would sit down at my computer, rattle off a few sentences about this or that and publish the article to my blog. Writing an entry might have taken me fifteen minutes, at the most. Now, however, I pay very close attention to my writing. In fact, most of my entries take more than a hour to write. It might ruin the spontaneity of writing on a blog, but I find the entries are far better when I have spent a good deal of time contemplating them.

Looking back at older entries, I almost feel embarrassed at how awful the writing is, because my writing has improved so much in three years. I doubt my blog can take all the credit for making me a better writer, but it certainly contributed. When I look back at this entry six months from now I will probably have to fight the urge to edit or delete it because the writing will be so abysmal compared to what I write then.

I really doubt a majority of the people my age writing in their lamentable LiveJournals or monotonous myspace.com musings. Regardless, I think this is an example of just another way technology can enrich and enhance the lives of people everywhere.