I wrote an article!
I wrote this article about The Wire, the HBO tv series. It's not like I got paid or anything, but it's the first meta I've written that I've put under my own name (so, if you go read it or something, don't link it back to this journal...).
The idea was housemate, Mr. Daroga's, and he did the artwork. The article is written as if The Wire is a Victorian novel written by a contemporary of Charles Dickens.
I'm inordinately happy with this for several reasons. The first is that I write a lot of meta, some of which is stuff I really want to talk about, and I just don't get that much traffic on it. There are many reasons for this, but one is that I rarely think about hooking people. Honestly, if I encountered my own meta, I probably wouldn't get to the end of it. It's all brain food and no gut food which makes it hard to focus on it. Mr. D's whole idea was a hook, and I ended up being able to say the things I want in an interesting way.
Another reason is I don't write academically enough to get published in academic journals. I don't want to. I sort of hate academic journals; I hate that writing style. And yet my writing tends to be a little too academic for most people (myself included!) just looking for something interesting to read. This article was a really cool way to write academically without having to be academic, and that was just fun.
Plus, there is art that goes with it!
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The idea was housemate, Mr. Daroga's, and he did the artwork. The article is written as if The Wire is a Victorian novel written by a contemporary of Charles Dickens.
I'm inordinately happy with this for several reasons. The first is that I write a lot of meta, some of which is stuff I really want to talk about, and I just don't get that much traffic on it. There are many reasons for this, but one is that I rarely think about hooking people. Honestly, if I encountered my own meta, I probably wouldn't get to the end of it. It's all brain food and no gut food which makes it hard to focus on it. Mr. D's whole idea was a hook, and I ended up being able to say the things I want in an interesting way.
Another reason is I don't write academically enough to get published in academic journals. I don't want to. I sort of hate academic journals; I hate that writing style. And yet my writing tends to be a little too academic for most people (myself included!) just looking for something interesting to read. This article was a really cool way to write academically without having to be academic, and that was just fun.
Plus, there is art that goes with it!
This entry was originally posted to Dreamwidth. Read Comments | Reply