If there’s one thing I hate about blogging, then there’s probably a bunch of other things too. My main bugbear is the continual need for new content. Blogs are hungry beasts. Much of what gets written is ephemeral and has a short shelf, no matter how much time you spent on it. With that in [...]
Posts Tagged ‘notebook’
Please Don’t Read This – Pages from my Notebook
Posted: November 24, 2010 in graffiti livingTags: notebook
They say you should face your fears. One of my biggest fears is that someone will read my notebooks and realise that I’m mad, that I can’t write, and that even when I do write, my first drafts are so terrible that I should be shot in the name of literature. So, here it is. [...]
Digital Zuihitsu – Blogging and Ranting in the Information Age
Posted: June 11, 2010 in graffiti livingTags: blogging, japan, life, nablopomo, notebook, writing
A writer friend of mine asked me what I knew about Zuihitsu. I sent her the following link in response and told her just to google it. Luckily, she has a sense of humour. But because she’d asked me, because she wanted my opinion, and because she’d rather cleverly dangled in front of me the [...]
Against my better judgment and pending deadlines, I’m participating in NaBloPomo. One of the blessings and curses of attempting to post something every day for a month, is that it forces you to lower your standards, at the same time as you lower your guard. As a result, you’re more likely to post things unedited [...]
Show the World its Own Dreams
Posted: June 5, 2010 in graffiti livingTags: activism, dream, dreams, life, magick, nablopomo, notebook, writing
When asked what I write, I usually grunt and say, “words”, before making a hasty retreat. When asked why I write, the most honest answer would be, “I don’t know, and even if I could afford a psychiatrist, I’m not sure that I’d want to find out.” The phrase I once came up with when [...]
