Those few people from the United Kingdom, who have read my blog posts about my being here, may have noticed already how much criticism I have done towards the UK. Maybe it's because of my unlucky adventures here... Well - that is the reason, to be honest. But I am not always like that.
As I have written quite long time, my experiences with journalism have shown me, that if you write about positive things only, you will lose your readers sooner or later, because - believe it or not - people do not like to read something that has no conflict in it. One of my good friends who also writes, had a great idea few years back - why don't we make a newspaper "Good News" and write there about good things and events. Sadly - this is not profitable, because no one is interested in reading only about good things. Just look around - even the greatest love stories written in all time, they all have conflicts, they all have bad events, that cause the reader to hold his/her breath, hoping that the heroes will survive and find happiness. And these stories are not read because of the happiness, but because of the thrill in these. Actually there are plenty of normal, real happy life stories in real life, where people meet each other, fell in love and live happily ever after, but there are very few who are really interested in reading about so lame and boring life events. Sorry!
I have even statistics for that. When I wrote some good articles in Estonian media, I got barely few hundred readers and 5-6 comments under the articles. But when I wrote about some topic in critical and sharply sarcastical way, there were more than ten thousand readers for an article and more than two hundred comments. Just for the information - in Estonia there is only 1,3 million people, of which Estonians are about 850 thousand only. So little math shows, that articles with good and happy text were read by 0,035 % of Estonian speaking population, while critical articles were read by >1,18 % of the same population. So it's at least 33,3 times more readers. Think about it! Actually my own blog in Estonian shows the same tendency. As soon as I touch some tender topics about society, the amount of readers and comments rise rapidly.
So - writing critical is a way to successful writing. There's nothing to do against it - people, readers are interested in things like that.
But what I wanted to say in the beginning that I do not write only about critical topics and in critical ways.
Last night I was thinking about the Burnely and I found this town really inspirational for me. Actually it started, when I stepped out from the library I was writing my last post, and saw some interesting and good opportunities here.
From the first day I came here, I liked that town. I like it's size, it's layout, it's people - except one bouncer. You know who I mean. And I also like the lanscape around the town.
All the Burnley have given me so many ideas, even so many new experiences, which may have been bad when they happened, but every experience is a lesson for future. But what is most important for me - being in Burnley has given me back my wish to write. I was struggling with that wish in Estonia lately, but now it's back and usually it means good thing.
If I am willing to write, I am ready and able to do almost everything I want.
Thank you, Burnley!
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