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In what ways can writing online be liberating?  Limiting?

      For my final blog post of the year i have decided to answer this question. I think writing online is definitely a different experience. It is sort of open, as opposed to a notebook, which is more personal.
     I think the reason blogging is more open is because it's online, so pretty much anyone can read it, and you don't necessarily know any of them, or know who's looking at your post.. Not that everyone does, but just that feeling of openness is kind of creepy, like standing in the middle of a sports stadium, while blindfolded. Writing in a notebook is more safe feeling, more controlled. It's closed off, literally. when you close your notebook, that's it no one can read it, it's shut to the world. But things online aren't like that.
     But that can also really help your writing. If it feels like every action is scrutinized and every word read by others, it pushes you to write the best you can. You can't write total crap like you might in a notebook, because others are reading and judging it. But sometimes I feel as if I don't want to write as meaningfully or as true to myself as I should, because people are reading it.
     So in the end, writing online really, for me, makes my work easier to read, more grammatically correct, and overall just better written then it would be in a notebook. But sometimes it also makes my writing less deep and emotional.