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Grinding

Jeremiah — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 06:16:15 +0000

The Real Reason Blogging is Hard [via Weblog Tools Collection]. It’s the grind. I’ve been more consistent these past few months, but no where near as prolific as i’d like. I have so many ideas. Some get started and abandoned as drafts. Some never even make it that far. I write too slowly, because i try to write perfectly. I’m not saying that i’m a great writer, but my desire to get everything just right gets in the way of actually doing it. The tools can take some of the blame.

It’s still way too difficult to make posts how i want them to be, keeping in mind semantic markup with proper linkage and all that. Concepts like the Flock browser sound great towards making that better, but in practice aren’t quite there yet—for me, at least. For example to make that link to the Flock page in the previous sentence, i opened a new tab, went to the Flock home page, copied the link, then came back to WordPress and pasted it. Sure, i could have just typed it in by hand since i knew the URL, but in most cases it’s longer and my way is quicker. I use the MakeLink extension for Firefox to copy HTML-formatted link code complete with title="" attributes.

Maybe i’m focusing too much on the wrong aspects.

Handwriting Tips

Jeremiah — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 20:43:16 +0000

Handrighting. [via < via <

Browser, Singular

Jeremiah — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 05:10:00 +0000

Flock sounds very intriguing to me. Especially the blogging enhancements. I waste so much time on meta crap and semantics when i post.* It should just be. Properly linked and formatted. Even with my minor arsenal of Firefox extensions, it’s still some kind of hassle. [via < via]

* It’s been well over fifteen minutes since i first clicked Write for this post.

Industry Odds

Jeremiah — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 17:23:43 +0000

The cliche is that every waiter in LA is an actor. The truth is that every non-waiter is probably working on a screenplay.

John August. “On friends, colleagues and jealousy.” [via]

Don’t consider myself much of a writer, but some very interesting insights into the industry at johnaugust.com.

Capital G

Jeremiah — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 06:14:28 +0000

And for the record, Googling is capitalized.

Draft Dodger

Jeremiah — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 07:16:04 +0000

I have four full rows [at 1024px wide] of unfinished draft posts staring at me from my Your Drafts section.

Quote Of The Day

Jeremiah — Sat, 25 Dec 2004 09:53:48 +0000

“I try to leave out the parts that people skip.” Elmore Leonard—author of Out Of Sight among other things.