BurningbirdJust writing
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. When introducing the audience as a key component of weblog writing, Steve wrote: We’re not writing an account of our lives just as a record of our lives, we’re trying to say something about our lives, and that can’t be done if we stick only to ‘facts’: the facts that will […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’m finding it difficult to respond to Steve’s earlier posting on ‘learning to read’, because there’s so much to say about it that I find myself stuck at the gates, not sure which way to respond. In particular, he’s raised an issue I’ve found myself sensitive to lately: the constraints audience expectations […]
Steve, in an uncanny knack for putting his finger on the real issues, touched on what I think is the key aspect impacting on the type of writing we do within a weblog — the audience. And this includes audience expectations. It’s difficult writing War and Peace and have it fit comfortably within RSS feeds focusing on […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. So many excellent comments associated with my previous writing, Shadow Talk, as well as exceptional writing in other weblogs such as Jonathon’s, Dorothea’s, Aquarionics, Elaine’s, Laura’s, and (soon to be) Chris’s. I only wish I could do justice to the debates because there’s a rich story unfolding among all the different views, but I’m not sure I’m […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I have a shadow, created by no form of mine. It follows me everywhere, but always arrives first, and lingers long after I’m gone. The more light I shine on it, the stronger it gets. So I hide it among my other shadows, in hopes that one day, it will […]