Alright, so Kerouac didn’t write anything about blogging…since he didn’t have the internet…or a computer. But I ran across an applicable quote in the book “On the Road” that reminded me a lot of blogging. The quote comes from the start of the book – where Dean is learning how to write from watching Jack…

He watched over my shoulder as I wrote stories, yelling, “Yes! That’s right! Wow! Man!” and “Phew!” and wiped his face with the handkerchief. “Man, wow, there’s so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down and without modified restraints and all hung-up on like literary inhibitions and grammatical fears…”

That quote is key. Most of the people I talk to about blogging say something like “yeah, I would love to blog, but I am worried about not having anything to write” or “I want to start a blog but I am afraid of looking stupid because I’m not a good writer/not good with grammar/etc.”

If you fall into that camp, learn from Dean – there are so many things to write…get it all down without modified restraints and don’t get hung up in literary inhibitions and grammatical fears. That is SO key to blogging.

If you are on the fence about blogging, just stop worrying about it and start writing.