Despite spending most of my time either playing games that I’ll write about or writing about them, I’ve always dreaded writing essays. I find that the vague thirty word title as a brief and a high word count tends to result in bad writing.

I’ve recently had to write one on ‘a force’ that has affected change for consumers, naturally I went with what I knew and picked communications technology – namely the internet. I always feel like I’m cheating when I’m writing an essay on something I know, especially after my last essay when I conveniently wrote about video games so I could post it on Nidzumi afterwards.

I think I’ll have to take an oath – an internet oath, so you know I’m serious – that for the next essay I’ll write about something I’m not knowledgeable on.

My main reason for hating essays is the word count concept – what ever happened to quality not quantity, that’s what all our other non-essay giving lecturers say. I can understand that it’s just a ‘tradition’ but high word counts lead to ridiculously long and strung out points. A real challenge would be to give us a massive topic to sum up in like 250 words, that way we would have to punchy and concise. I’d happily do 250 words on a different subject every week, hell, I do it here on this blog everyday now.

Today, I spent an hour editing and revising an entry for Nidzumi. I then felt the need to give the person in question, feedback. I’ll be honest, it was all very weird.

I’m not claiming to be a master of words, in fact I’m sure there are many poorly constructed sentences and grammatical errors in every blog post I make. It just felt slightly odd giving someone pointers on what they should be doing, because even though I’ve been writing for three years, I only think my writing has come along in the last few months. I guess that’s a good thing, means I’m always improving.

For anyone looking to get into writing read this along with every review, every editorial and every preview you can get your hands on. Oh, and never use the term ‘gamer’. At the very least start reading blogs by people who are competent with their writing.

I don’t have anything insightful to say about the whole thing, not sure why I’m telling you this.

Slow news blog day.