demagogue on 13/6/2011 at 00:35
Oh I think blogs are always worth doing.
It's like a prof of mine used to explain about criticism generally. It doesn't matter that a billion people have done criticism on the same books or movies or whatever. None of them have done it from your perspective. And when you start doing it, don't get pulled down about what everyone else has said. Concentrate on what's actually *right* or insightful, and that's the contribution. It's not "who's said what about a topic", but "what have you thought on all sorts of topics." It's as much about you as the topic. And like you say, you only get better at writing by jumping in and doing it, not just in your private notebook but for the public where the stakes are raised and you have to polish it and make it coherent & presentable.
Also I think the idea is you take questions that others have raised and move the ball on them. Start where they leave off (or backtrack on them and fork with a different answer). And there's always new developments, new techniques, new content, events, that bring new light to old questions. Ok I think I'm running out of cliches to get across his point.
Yakoob on 13/6/2011 at 01:12
Quote Posted by demagogue
It's like a prof of mine used to explain about criticism generally. It doesn't matter that a billion people have done criticism on the same books or movies or whatever. None of them have done it from your perspective.
As someone who is working on his masters and has (multiple times) plowed through literally five different published articles by different authors discussing the same subject with the same stance, arguing with the same arguments, and backing it up with the same base sources - fuck your professor.
demagogue on 13/6/2011 at 01:15
lol ok fair enough. :D
Vasquez on 14/6/2011 at 06:08
I have a blog where I write observations of nature (also pics from my walks in the woods) and what's it like being a novelist. It's more like a personal diary so I can sometimes look back and remember how I felt about the goods and the bads in my writer's career, or how early was spring that year etc. but also it provides an easy and personal way for my readers to comment on my books, ask questions etc. I've never been a diary keeper, but for some reason I've enjoyed keeping the blog.
I'm not a comment-hog so I don't write provocatively or anything, but of course it's always nice when some random stranger wanders into my blog and comments nicely the pictures or something :)
Oh, and my blog is in Finnish. Carry on.
Aerothorn on 14/6/2011 at 23:05
This is not the first Finnish blog I've wanted to read. Sigh.
