Comments on: writing vs. blogging: full disclosure / postscript http://encyclops.com/archives/23 books, movies, music, tv, video games, comics, & overheard conversations Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:27:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: How Not To Write http://encyclops.com/archives/23/comment-page-1#comment-122 How Not To Write Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:48:14 +0000 http://encyclops.com/archives/23#comment-122 Good post. I also wonder about the impact of not making a living from my writing. It seems that without the drive to put bread on the table, I spend far more time off staring at the stars. Fun, of course, but how productive is it? <blockquote> I discovered that, freed from the strictures of format and publishing, I could write about only and exactly what interested me, and to express myself plainly and directly. Once I got over the idea that my words were useless and inferior if they couldn’t be sold in 300-page bindings at Barnes & Noble, and that I had a responsibility to myself to publish or be silent, I could enjoy my writing for what it was, and not for the product it could be. </blockquote> I tend to think about my "not writing" in the same way. Sometimes it works and I make it through a piece and sometimes I wonder what the heck I'm doing. Good post. I also wonder about the impact of not making a living from my writing. It seems that without the drive to put bread on the table, I spend far more time off staring at the stars. Fun, of course, but how productive is it?

I discovered that, freed from the strictures of format and publishing, I could write about only and exactly what interested me, and to express myself plainly and directly. Once I got over the idea that my words were useless and inferior if they couldn’t be sold in 300-page bindings at Barnes & Noble, and that I had a responsibility to myself to publish or be silent, I could enjoy my writing for what it was, and not for the product it could be.

I tend to think about my “not writing” in the same way. Sometimes it works and I make it through a piece and sometimes I wonder what the heck I’m doing.

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