Rules Of The Game #19: A Friend Of A Friend
This week's column. Trying to construct a line out.
The Rules Of The Game #19: A Friend Of A Friend
I was sure I'd written a mediocre column until this morning, when I reread it and realized that it's fine. My problem is that deep inside I'd felt that I was violating some social taboo of journalism in publishing the final six paragraphs. I don't expect any of you folks to think so, when you read them. I'll have to give more thought about these feelings of illegitimacy.
I created an excess of prepositions at one point ("which I’ve been drawing on in for the last several columns"), which I'll try to get the poor, overworked online guy to fix. Also, in the final paragraph, where I wrote, "what I'm missing is more than a rudimentary critical community where we help each other," I'd have made the sentence more comprehensible by saying, "what I'm missing is a critical community that's more than rudimentary, one where we help each other." [EDIT: All fixed now.]
I wrote this piece before going to my PO box and finding the bad sales report for my book, but the two reinforce each other: the need for us to find routes outward to get our messages to potential colleagues unknown. Any suggestions?
EDIT: Here are links to all but three of my other Rules Of The Game columns (LVW's search results for "Rules of the Game"). Links for the other three (which for some reason didn't get "Rules Of The Game" in their titles), are here: #4, #5, and #8.
UPDATE: I've got all the links here now:
http://koganbot.livejournal.com/179531.html
The Rules Of The Game #19: A Friend Of A Friend
I was sure I'd written a mediocre column until this morning, when I reread it and realized that it's fine. My problem is that deep inside I'd felt that I was violating some social taboo of journalism in publishing the final six paragraphs. I don't expect any of you folks to think so, when you read them. I'll have to give more thought about these feelings of illegitimacy.
I created an excess of prepositions at one point ("which I’ve been drawing on in for the last several columns"), which I'll try to get the poor, overworked online guy to fix. Also, in the final paragraph, where I wrote, "what I'm missing is more than a rudimentary critical community where we help each other," I'd have made the sentence more comprehensible by saying, "what I'm missing is a critical community that's more than rudimentary, one where we help each other." [EDIT: All fixed now.]
I wrote this piece before going to my PO box and finding the bad sales report for my book, but the two reinforce each other: the need for us to find routes outward to get our messages to potential colleagues unknown. Any suggestions?
EDIT: Here are links to all but three of my other Rules Of The Game columns (LVW's search results for "Rules of the Game"). Links for the other three (which for some reason didn't get "Rules Of The Game" in their titles), are here: #4, #5, and #8.
UPDATE: I've got all the links here now:
http://koganbot.livejournal.com/179531.html