TJ_Han: I vaguely remember seeing lots of f-ing and blinding, but I don’t take that seriously. We’re pretty mild for an IRC channel.

Batezi: Yeah, the formality of blogs is a strange thing. I guess I see blogs more as a form of self-publication, so any kind of style is fair play.

Ten: Surprising! Most of your stuff is written better than mine, and I’m English…

Hopeless: Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t mean that in a negative sense. I wrote that out of surprise over the reaction you got as well. And I use quite informal language, too. How I write here is definitely not how I write for a Lit essay at uni. :D

My reason to blog is perhaps the opposite of improving my writing. I adore writing, and the type of style I use academically is honed for that purpose. With my blog, I wanted to try writing more imformally and succinctly than I general do, with less emphasis on the grammatical style and the writing’s quality and a greater personal feeling to the writing. I wanted to write without employing the same style I’ve developed and used for essays and assignments.

Due to this, I came to enjoy blogging, at times more than actually watching the anime that I’ve blogged in the past. I have no set direction to what I post each day, unless I fear I will be occupied during the week and just post something to appear each night. At the moment, I’m utterly oblivious to what I am going to post tomorrow, or the day after, but I hope whatever it is will be worth writing.

I generally post around 7-9pm GMT at the moment, but in all likelyhood those posts have been written earlier in the day or even long before; I have a post on anime music that I began to write about three months ago which still has not been completed and posted.

As for the time of day I write, it’s mostly after midnight. Usually after I get home from work. It’s a big stress reliever for me.

“when’s the best time to write”

I used to try and work this out too, but it started getting stupid when I was up reviewing DVDs at 1am! Late night writing is good for mad “theories”, but doesn’t do much for fludity of reading (at least in my case, anyway!).