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I went back to the beginning of this journal and read everything. It didn't take as long as I thought it might. It was interesting to see the different phases, the things that were tried and abandoned, the things that ran their course and the things that have always been a part of it.
For example, there were several months in 2004 where every post had a gonzo journalism title pulled from some news aggregration site. Things like, "NEW SUPERNATURAL MENACE ... WEREPOODLES". I might go back to that - I'm always in favour of preposterousness.
There was the multi-stranded story I was writing one post at a time, also in 2004. People seemed to like it then and thinking about the characters reminded me how much feeling I had for them, so I'm tempted to gather it up, make some actual outlines and character backgrounds and continue it in a more structured fashion.
There were even a few posts done in a monospaced block-layout form meant to portray a program reading and arranging text via thought-control. That was a lot of effort and I gave up on it quickly. If I'd written a script to slurp the text, format it and add the little header markers maybe it would've lasted longer. It seemed an interesting way to tighten up the writing and make sure I had multiple subjects to discuss. Twitter serves that purpose now, I think. You can find me at https://twitter.com/PinballGraham
Various other people were doing end-of-year media summaries and I did those for a couple of years. All the books, films and games I'd been through. Always too few books and too many games, not that the games are a bad thing; free time being limited, books got pushed to the back of the queue.
The more I think it over, the more I like the idea of 'appointment blogging' (to misappropriate a stupid TV channel term from their feeble attempts to avoid irrelevance) with a specific topic for a specific evening. Does that particularly interest - or disinterest - anyone?
For example, there were several months in 2004 where every post had a gonzo journalism title pulled from some news aggregration site. Things like, "NEW SUPERNATURAL MENACE ... WEREPOODLES". I might go back to that - I'm always in favour of preposterousness.
There was the multi-stranded story I was writing one post at a time, also in 2004. People seemed to like it then and thinking about the characters reminded me how much feeling I had for them, so I'm tempted to gather it up, make some actual outlines and character backgrounds and continue it in a more structured fashion.
There were even a few posts done in a monospaced block-layout form meant to portray a program reading and arranging text via thought-control. That was a lot of effort and I gave up on it quickly. If I'd written a script to slurp the text, format it and add the little header markers maybe it would've lasted longer. It seemed an interesting way to tighten up the writing and make sure I had multiple subjects to discuss. Twitter serves that purpose now, I think. You can find me at https://twitter.com/PinballGraham
Various other people were doing end-of-year media summaries and I did those for a couple of years. All the books, films and games I'd been through. Always too few books and too many games, not that the games are a bad thing; free time being limited, books got pushed to the back of the queue.
The more I think it over, the more I like the idea of 'appointment blogging' (to misappropriate a stupid TV channel term from their feeble attempts to avoid irrelevance) with a specific topic for a specific evening. Does that particularly interest - or disinterest - anyone?