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	Saturday, October 12, 2002

 Roller's Blogging Block

Now that Blogging Roller's creator finally has time to write, there is not as much to write about:

Blogging is difficult.

Blogging Roller made blogging easy for me
I'd just blog about Roller and related stuff

I hoped I that eventually, I would find my way to other voices
But blogging is difficult: I've got rules in the back of my mind
Don't blog about politics and start argumemts
Don't blog about family and day-to-day life, that'll bore people
Don't blog about work, because your employer may be reading
Censor yourself!

The bloggers that I enjoy reading are the ones that break these rules
I can't enjoy blogging unless I start breaking some of these rules

[Blogging Roller]

11:43:33 AM  comment [] | Topics: Writing 

 Repeat As Necessary

From the very funny How to Fail at Writing...

6. There are thousands of writing books. Better read them all before you start. One of them has got to have the secret. (Be sure to skip all the exercises.)

11. Whatever you do, don't finish anything. Just keep starting new fragments. (Any ideas prior to your latest suck anyway.) Or endlessly torture your existing manuscripts until you drain them of any vitality they might once have had.

12. If you do finish something, immediately share it with someone who can be counted on to tear it apart, tell you you're wasting your time, and imply you're an idiot for ever imagining you could write. Believe this person — s/he wouldn't say it if it weren't true.

13. Be sure you never actually submit your work for publication. Take the decision out of the editors' hands: reject it for them.

12:14:14 AM  comment [] | Topics: Writing