F[read]om Writers

By: Zama Ndaba
So you might ask yourself what a girl from a KZN township, a boy dedicated to hip-hop, a white girl in dreadlocks have in common, well they are all contributors to the blog F[read]om writers. They make no promises of what they might offer, but the diversity of their apparent personalities and backgrounds ignite excitement.
The blog itself appears to be easy going, on the sidelines; a booklist and not to much frillies, if you are not big on colour this is not the blog for you, the background they used seems to be a bit cluttered. The name of the blog portrays who they are, free, spirited people. They all give a different feel to the blog, so although all posts say they are posted by F[read]om writers, there is this sense of individual writing style, that become apparent, e.g. in her mission statement Cat Pennels (contributor), blogs about the environment, and Tshegofatso Masoba (contributor) blogs about Hip-hop. The fusion of the differing ways in which they see the world is interesting, it does not become awkward nor does seem to be all over the place, it merely merges in harmony. Most of the posts seem to very subjective, one of the posts is seem to go against meat eating and even though it doesn’t openly say that, meat eaters are portrayed are awful and “an issue of greed and cruelty”.
One of the problems I had with this blog is that all of them are too comfortable in their spheres. None of them venture into unknown topics like do a piece on politics or technology they all seem to be too warm in the cuddle of environment, Hip-hop and soccer. I would have liked to see more in-depth research in their posts, all of the posts are opinion after opinion.