Long post with much name-linking
Dec. 11th, 2008 02:26 pmI have been reading Ripping Ozzie Reads (ROR) which is a new blog by a bunch of Australian Speculative Fiction Authors. (So new it only has one follower - me! Which reminds me, does everyone realise how Bloggers follow thing works? Not the putting icons on the blog's page and showing popular it is crap. If you follow a blog (and you can do it anonymously), then the latest posts appear at the bottom of your dashboard, like a poor relative of LJ's Friends page. It makes keeping up with blogs much, much easier though. (I haven't had much luck with RSS Feeds - the Opera one annoys me, TBird doesn't seem to believe that I actually want to see the new posts & I really don't need any program running on the computer) and the bestest thing -- it's not limited to blogger blogs, I've added them from all sort of sites, including Wordpress. A handy thing, is this Following.)
Anyway, I was reading the latest entry, by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
flinthart, and he brings up the topic of writing about his writing. Which I don't generally do, write about my writing that is, not his. All right, I do a bit in November in an attempt to make the Nanoupdates slightly interesting and I used to do a bit in there from time to time (and I do occasionally on my Blogger blog, which you will note I'm not linking too and which I believe isn't read by anyone else, even though there are visitors noted on the web counter -- it shares this with one of my other Blogger blogs that gets hits from people looking for wooden boat festivals photo on Google image search (really, all right so I get the occasional visitor looking for cliffs or something, but most visitors end up on the same page). This is because I don't like writing in a lot of details about my WIPs in front of people who might possibly one day get to read them and so I tend to be vague which makes for boring posts. Also, I find other people's writing updates generally make for dull reading.
General writing posts (about craft, problems, inspiration and all that) are often interesting. I'd point outsartorias and cassiphone as two LJers who often have interesting writing posts, but then I get the feeling that I'm missing someone else from my Friends list who also does and I don't like that feeling,
so instead I'll point out thecassiphone (Tansy) is one of the contributors to the ROR blog that I mentioned earlier. Personally, I don't tend to write these sort of posts because they involved Thinking and Inspiration, both of which seems to disappear as soon as I hit the "Post An Entry" link.
The writing posts I most like though, are the ones on worldbuilding. Things like how would PTSD have been dealt with in the 1850s (yes, I know the term wasn't in use then)? What sort of body modifications will popular in 100 years? But these involve discussions, and my Friends (wonderful lot that you are and very much appreciated) don't seem to be the discussing in comments sort, at least on this LJ, which is probably a reflection of the Owner rather than the Friends :)
But anyway, that's why there don't appear to be many writing related posts here (although there are probably more than you realise).
Anyway, I was reading the latest entry, by
flinthart, and he brings up the topic of writing about his writing. Which I don't generally do, write about my writing that is, not his. All right, I do a bit in November in an attempt to make the Nanoupdates slightly interesting and I used to do a bit in there from time to time (and I do occasionally on my Blogger blog, which you will note I'm not linking too and which I believe isn't read by anyone else, even though there are visitors noted on the web counter -- it shares this with one of my other Blogger blogs that gets hits from people looking for wooden boat festivals photo on Google image search (really, all right so I get the occasional visitor looking for cliffs or something, but most visitors end up on the same page). This is because I don't like writing in a lot of details about my WIPs in front of people who might possibly one day get to read them and so I tend to be vague which makes for boring posts. Also, I find other people's writing updates generally make for dull reading. General writing posts (about craft, problems, inspiration and all that) are often interesting. I'd point out
sartorias and cassiphone as two LJers who often have interesting writing posts, but then I get the feeling that I'm missing someone else from my Friends list who also does and I don't like that feeling, so instead I'll point out the
cassiphone (Tansy) is one of the contributors to the ROR blog that I mentioned earlier. Personally, I don't tend to write these sort of posts because they involved Thinking and Inspiration, both of which seems to disappear as soon as I hit the "Post An Entry" link. The writing posts I most like though, are the ones on worldbuilding. Things like how would PTSD have been dealt with in the 1850s (yes, I know the term wasn't in use then)? What sort of body modifications will popular in 100 years? But these involve discussions, and my Friends (wonderful lot that you are and very much appreciated) don't seem to be the discussing in comments sort, at least on this LJ, which is probably a reflection of the Owner rather than the Friends :)
But anyway, that's why there don't appear to be many writing related posts here (although there are probably more than you realise).
