Am I blogging...or am I pitching my existence?
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Monday, July 19, 2004 The Pitch: It's like Missing meets Lost In Translation! As recent studies show, over 30% of all blog entries are apologies and explanations as to why one hasn't posted in a while. In order to keep that average accurate (I make up for the people who only post such entries 15-20% of the time), I have a number of felons on which to pin the rap but will limit myself to the "save as draft" function.Yeah, Blogger's got this "save as draft" function--you know, for those long entries you're trying to compose but keep getting interrupted by trifling matters like paying work. It's a handy little function that can keep you from losing your entry, but it's kind of incomplete. Because without a corresponding "make this shit interesting to me again" function, the draft entry just sits there in blogger limbo, unpublished, waiting for you to come back to it. So for the last three weeks, I was literarily cock-blocked by a long incomplete entry about losing Brian's Wild Cards book (and my overall suckiness as a loan recipient). Finally, I just deleted the damn thing and moved on. My new current plan is to keep my blog entries frequent and short. And by "frequent," I mean "occasional," and by "short," I mean, "potentially incomplete." Now I just need to figure out the same approach to my reading habits, as the lost volume two of Wild Cards (which, of course, has to be replaced with the exact same edition as the one I lost, since the other editions don't have the Timothy Truman cover art) because apart from reading friends' manuscripts and making my slow, snickeringly defensive way through Robert McKee's Story, I haven't started reading anything new in over a month. posted by Jeff Lester | 10:39 AM | |
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