Friday, June 8, 2007

Why I don't blog more often

From Kung Fu Monkey

that may be what blog-length is for -- transmitting bursts of thought rather than full ideas, but those bursts still have the rough edges of raw passion. Your mistakes are your style, I once had an old writer say to me. Blogs are where we can throw down some of the filters and gift more of our mistakes to strangers.

I think the reason I don't blog more regularly is that I'm uncomfortable with half thoughts - I want to have the whole thought before I write it down.

And blogging doesn't work that way. Earlier in the post, Rogers says that anger is what fuels the typing. Which I'm not good at. When I'm angry, I don't want to talk. Or type. It's when I'm at my most silent that I'm deadliest.

But maybe I could see the blog as the chance for me to experiment with a different approach, to try to fill the Internet with my mistakes.

Who knows?

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