It was an accident at first, and then a week and a half of having this website had gone by and I noticed I had not missed a day yet. So I started doing it on purpose. And I even came up with a reason why blogging something every day was a good thing: just putting something out into the world helps me lower my perfectionism bar. Perfectionism is just procrastination wearing a fancy coat, after all, so forcing myself to put something up here every day could have the knock-on effect of helping me relax my internal editor. Help me work on my other writing projects in a more focused manner.
But today all of my ideas for things to put up here would actually take me too long to develop, and I want to use that time to…gasp…work on my short story. So please enjoy this meta-post while I am off working on fiction.
Tracie W.
March 18, 2009 — 8:00 pm
Sweetly done! “Perfectionism is just procrastination wearing a fancy coat.” I’m starting to think that blogging is procrastination dressed up. Well, maybe a little dressy, now and then.
Just dropped in with a link regarding the RaceFail discussion.
http://sciencefictionbiology.blogspot.com/2009/03/science-fiction-race-and-fandom.html
Tracie W.
March 18, 2009 — 8:03 pm
And, I swear, every time I pop in, I see something on your Five Random Books that’s on my shelf as well, like Pride of Baghdad, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell and Promethea. Tell me you’ve read Y: The Last Man.
Great minds think alike. Or maybe just geeky minds (that’s a compliment, too).
Ferrett Steinmetz
March 18, 2009 — 8:19 pm
I think knowing your style, this is a very good idea.
Eugene Fischer
March 19, 2009 — 4:18 pm
Tracie: Thanks for the link. I bought every issue of Y: The Last Man. It was, in fact, one of the last series I was still buying issues of before I switched to only buying TPBs. Actually, though a majority of the books in my LibraryThing profile are graphic novels, it is still an under representation because only the titles I own as collected editions are on there.
Ferrett: Thanks, I’m optimistic about it.