The different faces of writing

Tuesday, September 16, 2025

When I started my blog, I was convinced that I would sit down at my computer and effortlessly transfer my thoughts to the screen. After all, I have been working in the digital media industry for over a decade, I write every day and it comes easily to me, so blogging would be a breeze.

If only you knew how wrong I was.

I didn’t take one very important thing into account: blogging is a completely different style of writing than what I deal with on a daily basis. It’s the same alphabet. It’s the same sentence structure. And yet there is something completely new about it.

My brain isn’t completely free. It wants to write the way it does at work. But that’s not what blogging is about. It’s a completely different space. A different way of describing the world. It’s like asking a poet to write a trilogy or a writer to write a book of poetry.

At first, it frustrated me, but for some time now, I’ve found it a bit funny and quite enjoyable. It gives me a lot of satisfaction. I returned to blogging after a long break. This is my first personal blog (previously, I ran thematic blogs). I’ve been blogging for just over a year and I’m still learning to write in a ‘new language’. The language of blogging.

It’s fascinating.