dreams

In order to keep the sports-writing dream alive, I have started my own sports blog. An online portfolio if you will, a compilation of the reports I have written on various sporting events which I have seen. At present, the blog only consists of six articles, not an amount to be proud of, but it’s a start and I intend to continue adding match reports and previews as and when I write them. The thing about blogging is, especially in this context, is that it is difficult to make the public aware of it. It would be nice if potential employees might stumble across my collection of match reports, but that will never happen. Therefore I decided to increase public awareness of my blog, by entering several reputable online sporting forums and spreading the word about my journalistic haven. The BBC’s 606 forum site is, in my opinion, a very worthwhile and complete website. Members are encouraged to comment, create and debate the sporting issues of the day, offering opinions and challenging articles written by contributors. The perfect place for me to sell my blog then. I posted a message on the forum stating that I was an aspiring journalist and as such I had created an online blog, including various match reports and sporting comment. Almost immediately I received a several responses to my post.
Faddythehero commented that “soon as i seen the cricket I came off the page”. Oh, Ok. Asides from wondering how ‘faddy’ had achieved hero status, I could not help but notice the poor use of grammar that he had demonstrated, ‘soon as I seen the cricket’!, how old was this person, did they do English at school? Anyway, I took this criticism with a portion rather than a pinch of salt and quickly looked at the next comment. In response to a cricket match report which I had posted Terrypayne had replied “Can we not stop this kind of school essay nonsense? Bores a go-go”, I was quite taken back, insulted, but everyman must have his critics if he is to have supporters. In a more positive light, Shoottherunner suggested that the blog had little chance of succeeding, adding ‘while there is little wrong with it, why would people leave the BBC’, before suggesting ‘I think you need a stand out style or feature to get a bit more interest’. I totally agreed. And that is what I am going to concentrate my efforts on. I want to produce a website that rivals the BBC and SkySports as the leading, independent, provider of sports news. This idea is, at present nothing more than a pipe dream, but I can tell you now, I am excited by it. I would love to make this happen.