what’s weird is that while i have a good two dozen ideas or so for future installments and i sure don’t post new installments as often as i once did, that hasn’t actually happened yet. those two dozen ideas have been sitting on a list for literally weeks—by and large, new installments have been the product of things that occur to me, which is really how this series began anyway.
i was trying to explain to a friend of mine the way in which i blog. he observed that he just isn’t interested in blogging as he isn’t interested in keeping a journal. and i thought that was funny at first but that’s essentially the way in which blogging began, isn’t it? so by way of reply, i said to him, “for me, a better metaphor is a newsletter”.
that made me think afterwards. i know that traditionally one finds people recounting their experiences, their daily hassles, trials, challenges and personal victories. it’s strange actually that as a rule, i don’t. maybe that’s just b/c i tend not to hang around here at soulcast in the evening: i spend little enough time w/ my wife as it is, you see.
no, i view my blog here as more like a newsletter. it has really only one (ir)regular feature: on the nature of, w/ other stuff that i like to add as they occur to me. some time ago, faithful disciple (FD, where’ve you been?) described the series as my best writing, which i gotta say, really made my day when he said it.
certainly of late, i haven’t had as much to say other than my ramblings in the series—excepting my burst-o-blogging on halloween—but i’m beginning to realize that the days when i routinely hit my 5 posts/day limit were during the summer and i’ve been expecting the same kind of activity and energy out of myself now that i had then. and that’s kinda dumb.
i dunno, there’s a part of me that thinks that maybe i need to add a new feature to this. so i guess i’m looking for an idea here. not for new installments in “on the nature of”, although that’s certainly always welcome; no, i’m looking for a new series to add. it would probably be something i did only on an ad hoc basis, mind, unless it kinda gains a life of its own.
i did once have the idea of doing a series in which i did something that i usually hate: an advice column. that’s probably a function of the fact that i’m an opinionated bastard w/ a complete inability to STFU, but hey, to thine own self be true, right? anyway, those things usually only work well if they have a theme. :>
so anybody have any thoughts on the matter? or is this just a space-filler?
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