So it turns out that I am not as good as managing my time as I once assumed, and I am not able to produce relatively long and polished pieces on a more-than-sporadic basis (or less-than-sporadic? Does “more-than-sporadic” mean “more sporadic”? Or does it mean “better than sporadic”? That’s a tricky one). This comes as little surprise, though, since this is my third or fourth attempt to maintain a regularly-updated blog.
The problem is two-fold: I aim for a 1000 word benchmark and I try to write things that are more than haphazard musings. (I know that second criteria must come as a shock – this blog is indicative of my writing standards?) Thus, the solution is also two-fold: lower my word-count expectations and lower my standards. And this is what I aim to do. I will not strive for cohesive essays anymore. I will be more spontaneous and less apprehensive about my writing. The result will probably be note-like entries (this was my hope when I first revived this blog, hence the title “notes.”). Hopefully they will be somewhat organised and more than arbitrary (or less than arbitrary? Here’s why I’m having trouble with this. I assume calling someone “less-than-kind” means that they aren’t very nice. But what if you called someone “less-than-mean”? I would probably assume that you’re saying that they are even worse than a mean person).
Since no one reads this blog anyway, these changes will be of virtually no consequence. How zen this blog is!
