Blogging With Billy Koesoemadinata

There’s one sentence which I remembered the most from the time of my beginning on learn to write long ago.

“The goal of writing is make an art piece, then publish it. If there’s none wanted to publish it, then do it yourself.”

Short. But, quite effective.

First time I heard that words, approximately on mid 2005, technology wasn’t like nowadays. On the 2005, especially on internet technology, still in ‘developing’ ages. What I mean here, is blogs. Or, in the early time, the word is weblogs.

Weblogs, or now we call it blogs, as long as I remembered, on 2005 wasn’t boomed like nowadays. So, there’s only a few people had a blogs in the internet as their personal media. For the rest, they used website – which (again) I think the platform is very different with blogs.

Back to the words which said by my mentor, blogs nowadays became the perfect media for writers to publish their works. On the blogs booming lately – proven with the held of pestablogger 2008 (blogger party 2008) with officially 1400s participants, not counting all those people which didn’t registered nor came bay – blogs really can make someone who’s only ordinary people, be well-known through their blogs on the internet.

Well, the indication of famous or not-famous from a someone’s blogs, was differed in 3 types. The first, was text blogging or blogging with just writing texts. So, people blogs and share their thought through their writings. Second, photo blogging. For this one, people share their though through pictures. Third, was the mix between text and photo blogging. In this type, people wasn’t just write for text, but also share through illustrations of pictures and photos.

As the title of this post and also the words from my mentor, true writer is them who could do the text blogging. They made their writings, and then because it wasn’t (yet) published by the book publisher, so they publish it through blogs. Of course, for a writer who loves to write, text blogging is the perfect way out. Just before their writings could gain the interest from the book publisher, publishing through blogs is the most effective way to make the writer’s name to be known by other people.

I myself had an opinion, text blogging is fit for writers. But, is it fit to reach the blogs readers to be stay loyal, and also make the writer’s name to be well-known by lots people? So, how it’d be? Is it photo-blogging? A writers is rare which also do some photography, but if yes, and capable of, why not?

Well, one solution which fits, is combine text and photos on blogs. So, it would be some illustrations to strengthen and add values for our writing text. This thing besides could strengthen the writing, also helps our writing’s readers, so they can imagine what kind of our writings really are. But of course, the pictures/photos must connected with our writings – if it’s not connected, it could be fatal.

My suggest, if you wanted to be a writer – or, had a profession as a writer, own and use blogs is a compulsory, so we could release some of our writings which pop out all in sudden. For the type of the blogs itself, will it be mixed text-photos, or text blogging only, it returns on ourself. Because actually, the real thing which come out from write, is the creation of theatre of mind. It’s about how to make the perfect imagine of our writings to our reader.

So, writers and blogging? Why not?

Billy Koesoemadinata
Writer – Journalist – Blogger (wannabe)