Gee, I hope Robin Hobb is wrong. She makes the case that there is a fixed amount of writing within ones self to be had, and that if one has a blog, that means less actual writing. (1)
But I fear she is correct.
Writing is something I do for a living, in part... most IT consultants have to deliver documentation to a greater or lesser degree, and system architects like me tend to have to deliver quite a lot of it.
I've long noticed that I procrastinate on deliverables by writing articles... I procrastinate on writing the articles I mean to write (see "procrastination") by getting involved in various admin things, reading newsgroups and mailing lists, writing posts, writing stuff on talk pages, posting on AN/I, RFARs, chatting away on IRC, posting to Wikback, to Wikipedia Review, other people's blogs, etc. etc. etc! Namespace shift at its finest!
And now apparently I have yet another way to procrastinate, this blog. Well maybe I should at least try to be brief, and stop now, then...
Do you find one kind of writing saps your will to do another kind?
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1 - Note, I found her writing via a post at the blog of Cydeweys, which was in turn a reference to a post at the blog of John Scalzi, one of my favorite currently active SF authors.
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Don't blog... write!
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there's a deeper point to consider here - which is the fundamental health of the relationship many of wikipedia's editors have with the project - that's food for thought for me at least.....
Your post also reminded me that I must re-read the FitzChivalry stories again - she's a great writer!
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