Tuesday, April 18, 2006
A New Paradigm
When I first started the registration process at blogger.com I had a vision of sitting down every couple of days and carefully compiling a story that drew together bits of original research that hadn't been connected before and providing the relevant backstory that would make it comprehensible to a normal person (why mince words?). This would give me an opportunity to practice writing, stave off the progressive decline of my vocabulary and fill my brain with interesting facts I could use to bore people at cocktail parties.
In reality, I write far too little for this to count as practice, and part of the problem is that I have started with such a high bar (polished, original pieces of content) that I simply can't meet it in any sort of timely way. Like Mary Lou Lord says, you got to aim low. So from now on, I will try to vomit up more regular updates. And since the pool of chunky, partially digested ideas is rather shallow, many of these will be the thin, bilious posts of the chronically narcissistic.
In reality, I write far too little for this to count as practice, and part of the problem is that I have started with such a high bar (polished, original pieces of content) that I simply can't meet it in any sort of timely way. Like Mary Lou Lord says, you got to aim low. So from now on, I will try to vomit up more regular updates. And since the pool of chunky, partially digested ideas is rather shallow, many of these will be the thin, bilious posts of the chronically narcissistic.
// posted by nerodia @ 9:50 AM 
