Why He Blogs

Andrew Sullivan’s article, “Why I Blog,” describes how he came to enjoy blogging so much. It also talks about the joys one can gain from blogging as well as how blogging came to be. Sullivan blogs because of the feeling of impulse he gets when he doesn’t have to submit his work to an editor, but rather a frenzy of active readers waiting to critique every sentence he posts. Blogging is in instant publication of work and Sullivan illustrates on positives and negatives of that. He states in his essay, “Blogging is therefore to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.” Just as I am experiencing the immediate publication of my writing, Sullivan writes what is in his head at whatever time. Sullivan notes that something writers have never been exposed to is having to reveal something about their personal lives. An editor notes that in their articles and removes it. Sullivan again states, “But a blog, unlike a diary, is instantly public. It transforms this most personal and retrospective of forms into a painfully public and immediate one.” Sullivan’s for blogging are all listed in the essay. He embraces the immediate publication aspect of a blog and the adrenaline rush of posting without the say so of an editor. He says in his essay that he was “hooked” from the first few days he used the blogging format. My belief as to why he blogs are directly his words. He explains, “The simple experience of being able to directly broadcast my own words to readers was an exhilarating literary liberation.”