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* The other day, I read Miss Snark’s post about blogging,<\/a> in which she says that having a boring blog is dangerous to writers because people will think the writer is boring. I recently ran across the same sentiment posted somewhere else.<\/p>\n So I’d just like to say, for the record, that my LJ is boring because my creativity goes into my fiction and my dayjob. I created this thing to track my writing progress, not to write profound essays on self indulgence or the purpose of SF. Sorry.<\/p>\n * Via Paperback Writer<\/a>, this post on writer’s notebooks<\/a>.<\/p>\n I keep a notebook, sort of. When I have a dream that I think might be a story someday, I write it in the notebook. Sometimes I write down story ideas, the kind that take up a whole page and have actual prose with them, not just a sentence. And then I never look at them again.<\/p>\n But that’s it. I don’t do “freewriting” or “I have a neat sentence! Must write it down and use it someday!” type thing. And I don’t keep a journal, except for this one. Which is not very much about me, at least not the me inside my head.<\/p>\n I’ve been using the same spiral notebook for more than five years and it still has plenty of blank pages. I have nothing against notebooks, but I don’t find the concept useful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Recent Readings: * The other day, I read Miss Snark’s post about blogging, in which she says that having a boring blog is dangerous to writers because people will think the writer is boring. I recently ran across the same … Continue reading