Where have all the flowers gone?

I was searching through blogs trying to figure out how to promote and eventually get my screenplay produced. While I was doing that I realized there are so many abandoned blogs out there. I mean you look at something. Just for kicks we'll call it a blog post, and it is really interesting.

This is someone who can really write and has a real opinion on things and you are learning something. Maybe it's something you can use in everyday life, or maybe you're just learning about the human condition or whatever. It doesn't matter so much exactly what it is, the cat can write and he or she is holding your interest. Maybe their dog has an ulcer and they are worried about whether it will survive. They love that dog and are worried so much and their little girl has hysterics and is crying. They even post a couple pictures of when the dog was a puppy under the tree at Christmas. they got you.

Then you realize the post is from december of 2007. And the story is done. You are thinking, what the fuck happened to that dog? or "Did this blogger have a car accident and die? Maybe on the way to the vet?"

And it is sad man. Sad that people stop writing. I can understand why. I mean, I have had two products that really could help people, and no one buys them or even downloads them for free, and you think to yourself "what the fuck? why am I even bothering?" Herman Melville died pennyless. So many well known best selling authors and other artists die alone and sad.

And yeah, that puppy may have died, but at least it was loved for what it brought tot he table. And it didn't care if no one outside its circle even knew about it. Dogs are unconditional love if you treat them even somewhat well. Feed it and don't kick it and odds are it will love you forever.

This isn't an abandoned blog although it is neglected sometimes. If it was a dog it would have died of starvation by now.

I am sad especially for the blogs that were loved for a year or more, but then, nothing.. quote the raven nevermore. Nevermore to hear the trivial interesting details of someone who is willing to write the truth as no on else can. And you know you can really write the truth when you don't think anyone you know (or maybe no one at all) will read it.

I'm no Melville or Poe, but they are not me either. I hope that this causes at least one person to go back and give their old blog CPR. Revive it and bring it back to life for the joy the writing gives you. You never know who is going to read it, but you shouldn't write for that reason alone.

Where have all the writers gone? Long time passing.