Create Less Content More Often.

[conformer]

Before the age of constant superconnectivity, before the rise of online content distribution services, and before the malaise of exponentially decaying volume of originally-produced micromedia, (writing begets blogging, blogging begets tweeting, tweeting begets retweeting) those of us who so proudly, haughtily, or in the case of Your Humble

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[anonymousblack]

you've put something into words that i've had at my fringes for a very long time. not only did my notebooks change when we got a computer (not until 1993, for me) but the way i wrote, as well; "random mixtape of thoughts," indeed. some of it might be the way time changes from highschool into college, but i think a lot of it had more to do with the process you talk about here. it's a mixed situation, one i've been both disturbed and inspired by.

funny, i'm in the process of building a chapbook about my senior year of high school and was thinking about my old notebooks just yesterday (wishing i had them, they're quite far away.) those little metallic stickers they used to use to seal cds? i used to peel them off the cases very carefully and line them up inside the cover of the poetry notebook i started the winter of my senior year.

[anonymousblack]

p.s. thanks for showing us the notebooks, it's comforting to see them.

[my_window_seat]

I miss the act of carrying a notebook everywhere - but even though I've tried several times to reacquire the habit, it's never stuck. I don't understand it; why I miss something I have no impulse to actually do anymore - but there you are. Humans.

Right now, I miss even more the ability to just randomly log on the LJ and post things I'm thinking about during the day. It's blocked at work, and that bothers me more than I like. By the time I get home I'm pretty much tapped out.

I miss a lot of things right now, it seems.

Same as above - I like seeing the pictures of your notebooks.