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One of the things I remember from school English lessons, is write to your audience. Tailor the tone, content, and level of assumed background knowledge accordingly. The problem is, I don't have an audience in mind for this blog, so I don't really think I've found my "voice".
Why do I post? )

So what should I write next?
  • An alcohol themed linkdump.
  • An entry describing the pseudo science on one of the lines in this comic, and why it may make sense
  • Another introspective entry titled: "My entire moral foundation is based on vague memories of Saved by the Bell".
  • The first entry of my live blogging Dr No.
I'd turn this into a poll, but I don't want to pay for LJ, and think it would be wrong to upgrade to a ad-supported account, and use an ad blocker.
{addendum}
  • A review of Lord of the Rings the musical.
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Looking back at some minutes I've just taken, here's some of the more interesting spellings:

supupport
tabk
butseniour
Veverarage
easg
Prossess

Can you guess what they were meant to be? )
Some of that's just bad handwriting, but there's a few spelling errors, and double letters. I can usually spell if I think while I'm writing, and I'm not too tired, but when having to write that quickly, it tends to fail me. Thank Cthulhu for spell checkers!
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Sod any attempt at making this flow too nicely. I've already got a couple more posts planned on explaining why I hate writing.
I'll try and treat, the early posts at least, as some sort of stream of of conciousness, and not spend forever agonising of the exact word to use in each place. This post in particular I'm going to write damn quick, and resist any editing.

There's a weird contradiction going on here. I can speak pretty rapidly, and with excessive verbosity, but when I write I usually end up with very terse documents. Occasionally to the point where context is missing, and people have difficulty understanding it. I'm really bad at going back and padding out things where I have a word limit, but feel I've said it all. Another example is redundancy. Redundancy is too redundant for me. People will act on my emails, and docs, but have missed one or two sentences that are clarifications, or warnings, and miss them. This probably stems from being a very slow writer as a kid. I hated writing anything twice.

As a couple of examples from the last a posting policy (I decided did need re-writing).

I wrote: "I guess I should just go with what feels right. But when I have to slow down and linearise my thoughts to the speed I can write at." Which firstly sounds horribly pretentious, and secondly is completely redundant with the "I'm probably overthinking this" which followed.

I spent ages trying to find the right word for this sentence "Entries are on point".
I did have "Entries are on a topic" but then I thought: well that doesn't capture what I mean. It sounds like What I mean is that any individual entry is about something other than the authors own life. Like a link dump, or a review, or a newspost, or something. But that's far too long, and untidy for a bullet point, and I don't want to to expand each point into a whole paradise.

Even though I've tried to treat this as a stream of conciousness, I've gone back and added lots of clarifications as I think of them, and realise that the don't fit when I think of them, and the sentence can be read ambiguously.

Ick. This is so introspective it hurts.

Also I'm writing this (offline) on a train, and I think it's taken over 30 minuets! And I'm really trying to write this quickly. If each post takes this long ... Still there's a tale I heard that someone (Leonardo da Vinci?) decided that he needed to learn to draw, and took pen to paper, and drew an appalling portrait, and said "Well only 999 more rubbish drawings to go".
So come back in 997 posts is you want some coherency ;)

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