Cogitating
Something happened to my brain last week when I finished the draft of an 8,300 article -- you see, I'd been writing 600 to 1,200 columns for years, many of them each week and usually as a sideline to what I did for "work." It got so that I was unable to write beyond that limit with any real success. By the middle of 2001, I just stopped writing, because it had become formulaic and not fun anymore.
Blogging made writing fun again, largely because there was nothing to worry about: length, typos (though I am careful about this), or fees (I'd gotten to the point where if I didn't make a certain amount per word I didn't want to write, like a lazy star outfielder who has several years left on their contract). That article on Invisible Dogmas broke a barrier in my head and I am thinking about writing not just one but several books over the next couple years. I haven't written a book in almost 10 years, so this is a big thing for me. And I've been thinking how to use this renewed energy.
Oh, and watch this URL: www.correspondences.org.
Posted by Mitch Ratcliffe at April 17, 2003 09:50 AM | TrackBack