Brain Dumping About Brain Dumping

I tend to have difficulty beginning my blog posts. Can you tell? The first line of a written work should draw in the reader, but in formal writing I usually come up with the catch after more of my paper has been developed. With blogging, I kind of tend to ramble until I come up with a string of thoughts and then they flow out like water rushing over sleek midnight rocks as it approaches an abyss of evening and lands in splashes as eloquently as an acrobatic cannibal. Yeah. My thoughts take a bit of processing before they become verbalized, and blogging has them just splatter across a screen as I think them. Because of this, my writing style has changed a bit, in that I think my words more slowly than usual… if that’s possible. It is surprising sometimes to read my strings of raw thought, but also entertaining and interesting to observe how those ideas might have been explained differently had I processed mentally before typing. It is neat to read my earlier posts, though, because they remind me EXACTLY what I was thinking about earlier readings just after I read them, so I feel like I am remembering more about the articles than I would have had I formulated themes and ideas before typing anything. I also think, as Carr suggested, my brain has adapted to having large quantities of information thrust at it, so I look for the most important pieces when I read. When I observe other people’s blogs, and my own in reflection, I don’t feel myself scanning for information and important bits because I am drawn to points as they are thought up, which usually makes for a more easy extracting process than formal writing with extensive theses provides.