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I know. I know. Those of you stupid enough to follow my mad hatter schemes are saying “David, where did you go?” “Don’t you love us anymore?” “Was it something I said?” “Was it something I ate?” “Was it the Nazi thing? I can stop the Nazi thing!”
No. I’m to blame. I went back to college and got swept away in tales of romance and two-bit, fool-erranded ,fool’s-gold malarkey. Guilty as charged. But, as promised, I’ll make a quick conclusion about blogging and how it affected my writing.
1. Setting a deadline with no goals= no growth. Once I decided to separate the experiment’s days into separate categories, I started focusing on skills to improve. A focused goal= a streamlined and clearer learning curve.
2. More is not necessarily better. Neither is a deadline. Though it kept me producing, and making quick decisions about my writing process, it did not keep me writing on the days that weren’t my deadline. The lesson here is, good to keep writing, and fast. But you shouldn’t aim to churn it out, but instead have a steady process of the decisions that polish your craft.
Sporadic writing(writer’s permanent choices)x sporadic deadline < Steady writing (writer’s permanent choices) x steady long and short term deadlines
3. It did help me take survey of my writing. And, as a blogger, it upped my readership quite a bit. To any of you out there who never believed,:fresh content, no matter how clunky, is great for your blog.
4. Still, the real question is: Did it make me a better writer? Well, the polls are a pretty shitty indicator, since little of you used it. In the short run, yes. It did. I continually made decisions on how to improve my writing. But, like all habits, I stopped and those decisions weren’t reinforced. They left. It did keep me writing but, it is no replacement for steady work. Working on my weekly comic has done more for me as a writer, then the blog has. But the blog has done more for me as a blogger. Obvious? Yeah, but maybe it needed to be said. Blogging and writing are two different skills. I know this now. Any blogger who says they’re the same, I’d like to argue with hem.
I’ll update soon, I think. There may be a podcast starting with me in it, so i’ll post that if it comes to fruition. Otherwise, keep looking at the GEC for anything worth a damn: http://genericeaglecomic.tumblr.com/
Night.
