November 19, 2003

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Who knows what'll get a rise or a response?

Yesterday's post elicited some great comments. I don't think it was because it was better written than some other entry, or meatier than another (okay - maybe). But the thing is, I can never predict when I write how others will react. And I shouldn't. Because the best writing originates with the moment. The best writing is honest. The more filters that get put on it, the more it becomes more like broadcasting and journalism. More neutral. Less me there.

And the point of this endeavor is to practice using my voice. This introvert voice in a space that I've claimed as my own.

What was the point? I was going somewhere...

Oh, yeah. So every once and a while, self-consciousness reappears. Usually after a bunch of comments when my delusion of writing for my self (and only self) is broken by interested house guests.

Damn. I have to be witty.

Then I visited Elaine's blog here. And I don't.

This is a great post. And it's better with comments. Elaine is thinking the same things (sorta) that I am today. But isn't part of the interest in visiting others the intermingling of sublime and mundane?

Posted by weez at November 19, 2003 09:45 AM | TrackBack
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I read your weblog regularly - and love your mum's too!

It's probably odd to many people, but I tend to use my weblog specifically for "serious" (i.e. academic) things ... when I don't want to think hard I watch movies and play video games ;)

But maybe every so often it would be good to use my blog to *just be* ...

Thanks!

Posted by: Anne at November 19, 2003 03:30 PM

Interesting.

I imagine myself on the periphery and while I visit your blog regularly, didn't think that you visited here. That is so cool. (Do say that with all of the inflection of a freshman in you head).

I visit several folks for edification and look through the interstices for glimpses of the person behind the words. Scholarly, technical blogs are bit more opaque (in that it's a bit harder to get at the author's soft gushy layers underneath) - but then again, the intent is different.

There was a flurry of posts here a while back about that tension created by the professorial persona and how much one belied that with the personal that hit the blog.
http://weez.oyzon.com/archives/000115.html

kf at Planned Obsolescence is toying with it.
http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/po/archive/000193.php

Jill does it regularly (though in snapshot form).

I love the breadcrumbs to personality.

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