When I read your blogs, I imagine you speaking the words to
me. Some of you have slow, drawling voices, while others have faster paced
cadences with accents different from mine. I won’t tell you which blogger I’ve
dubbed with a Daffy Duck voice. (I kid! I kid!) Of course, all of these voices
are made up in my imagination because I’ve never heard a blogging friend
actually speak, that is until this weekend.
I was thrilled to have a wonderful phone visit with a dear
blogging friend who’s asked me to collaborate on a writing project with her.
Not only that, I will be getting to speak soon with another amazing blogging
friend who’s asked me for my opinion on parts of one of her novels.
I’ve been thinking about our blogging community. Some scoff
and say it’s not real; the virtual world is a sad excuse for socialization.
However, I’m with the other group who fervently backs the idea that the
blogging neighborhoods are just as real and vibrant as any other social
network. Only two people in my daily life know I blog, or even that I write
anything other than grant proposals. You all know me much better in a literary
sense than most of my friends.
And even though I will never get to attach the real voice to most of my blog neighbors, I count each of you as friends. That’s what blogging has
done for me: connected me with incredible people I would never have met
otherwise.
How about you? Have you ever spoken with any of your
blogging friends you didn’t already know, or even met up with some of them? Is
it something you’d like to do if you haven't?
And I put up a short recording of my own voice on a past
post, in case you’d like to hear it, although the giveaway I talk about is already over. Click here: Shelly's Voice (This will take you to a Sound Cloud page. It should start playing automatically when you open the page.) Yep, that’s a sure fire Texas accent all
the way through it.
