My host was a blogger. A natural. Just able to spin stuff out of nothing. And not "incentivised" like we are here on Steemit. It did contribute to his business, but not directly, he was of the "earning because of blogging" school - but it was working, as you can see by the furnishing in his home :)
A new twitter app had come out for iPhone or something like that. He asked me what I used. I showed him that old thing we all used to have for our phones, dabr, which was a lightweight mobile browser interface. Too lightweight for him.
I heard him on the phone to someone else, another natural born blogger, the guy who I first saw using that phrase. It was weird. Hearing two people I knew almost entirely through their writing, chatting on the phone (of course I only really heard one side of it). They were weighing up the pros and cons of this new app in between small talk about the family and all that. When he put the phone down he tapped away for a few minutes and then jumped onto the sofa with his sons to watch American Idol. I was looking at twitter on my phone and saw the tweet pointing to his new post pop up. It was quite an ordinary moment, but felt extraordinary. I was sitting there, overheard the genesis of a thought that turned into a quite complicated post that he obviously really needed to get out of his system and, bam! there it was in 500 words or so, seemingly just flying out of his fingertips. And then... job done... telly.
I started talking to him about what he'd written, but no, that was done now, gone. All that mattered was the TV talent show and the small boys cuddling up to dad.
When I got up the next morning, I could see that much later he'd posted a really detailed post about other aspects of the conversations he'd been having all day. Seeing it laid out, I could spot things that I'd heard him say, tried out on other people, before committing them to the page. All day, without writing anything down, he'd been drafting a post in his head and then when we'd all gone to bed, out it came in succinct, thought-through and convincing bullet points.