if you can't write about depression and bad times in your own journal, where can you?
Well, I do wonder sometimes ...
I hope things are getting a little better.
Slight improvement but it vacillates wildly from hour to hour at times.
I thought long and hard about bothering with book reviews this year, but concluded that at some point I might want to be able to point to the fact I've done them -- heaven knows why, a kind of portfolio or something -- and that I do actually enjoy that level of analysis of what I read. Moving them out of LiveJournal rather emphasises that separation from my everyday rambling, and probably makes them less accessible to others.
I think about this sort of thing myself, without reaching a conclusion. I have set up Paper Knife to take the longer essays because I do feel LJ isn't really geared up to handle long material comfortably, but the stray comments I've received over the years about writing stuff that's too scary and intimidating for a journal nowadays receive very short shrift. My journal, my life, my writing, and if that means Derrida this week, so be it.
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Date: Monday, January 30th, 2006 01:49 pm (UTC)Well, I do wonder sometimes ...
I hope things are getting a little better.
Slight improvement but it vacillates wildly from hour to hour at times.
I thought long and hard about bothering with book reviews this year, but concluded that at some point I might want to be able to point to the fact I've done them -- heaven knows why, a kind of portfolio or something -- and that I do actually enjoy that level of analysis of what I read. Moving them out of LiveJournal rather emphasises that separation from my everyday rambling, and probably makes them less accessible to others.
I think about this sort of thing myself, without reaching a conclusion. I have set up Paper Knife to take the longer essays because I do feel LJ isn't really geared up to handle long material comfortably, but the stray comments I've received over the years about writing stuff that's too scary and intimidating for a journal nowadays receive very short shrift. My journal, my life, my writing, and if that means Derrida this week, so be it.