Ohmigod, I'm giddier than a school girl.

My absolute favourite Melbourne writer and personal hero Marieke Hardy (aka blogger Miss Fits) has responded to a question I posed to her regular Friday Q&A entry.

This may not seem like a big deal to, well, anyone but me (considering she answers about 40 every week), but I'm rapt to have made contact - albeit in one of the lamest possible ways - and get a couple burning questions answered in the meantime.

The question and answer are repeated below courtesy of her blog, Reasons You Will Hate Me. (The first question may seem random unless you've visited her site - which is as good an invitation as any if you haven't yet.)

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Josh Dare said...
Fits-o-rama!

Mid-term reader, first time blogger over here, after much deliberation.

I do actually have a bona fide question for you, which may excite you. Two, in fact.

1) Do you know how hard it is not to mimic your writing style when posting a comment here? Surely you've picked up on the parroting by now. It's a compliment at the end of the day; your little sing song method of writing is terribly infectious.

See, there I go again.

2) OMG I BLOG TWO. Seriously, I just started a blog (http://blog.joshdare.com). I'm altoghether too writer-y about the whole shebang tho: I get all 'tarded when trying to think of entries and stuff because I've got no idea who my target audience is (frankly, a lot of the time I think there is no audience) and I've got no central question to address coz it's bleeting on about nothing. As a grand mama of blogging, do you have any tips?

Cheers in advance! Loving your work in Green Guide / Frankie / quick skit on Chaser's

Hello Josh Dare, and welcome to the blogosphere.


*smashes champagne bottle against laptop*


To the questions:


1) I know that when reading a particular writer I inevitably end up attempting to sound exactly like them which is good when it's an insufferably verbose twat like Martin Amis and not so good when ploughing through three volumes of Adrian Mole's diaries. I don't mind if people borrow my retardedly lengthy sentences and distinct thumbing of nose at grammatical guidelines. Let us mock the system together.


2) I get what you're saying - my earliest blog entries veer wildly when it comes to style, and even when people started reading/commenting I wasn't sure whether to write to please them or write to please myself. In the end I guess you need to just keep plugging away and honing your craft - since part of the infuriating joy of blogging is being forced to wake up every day and find something mildly diverting to write about - and eventually curious onlookers will drop by and tell you you're a misinformed ass with body odour problems and to go fuck yourself and you'll know you've made it. As for 'bleating on about nothing' - this is essentially the heart of blogging. You've got it mastered, grasshopper.