I’ve started a number of posts over the last few days, but not gotten around to finishing them. It’s kind of testing the ideas on paper (or the screen or whatever metaphor you want to use). I think I’m talking to myself. It’s partly the idea that this here bloggy thing is all about what I find interesting, or at least workable. Obviously, not every thing I start writing is workable. I have some ideas that when I put down, I realise that they don’t quite work. There’s some basic premise that’s missing. So I leave them there. In drafts. Perhaps I’ll get back to them.
I have gone back over them occasionally and worked out that some would just never come together and I delete them, one or two have been worthwhile pushing through but there is still a whole heap of them that haven’t been rejected or moved forward yet. I suppose that’s part of my internal conversation with myself and the blog is part of the external conversation.
I want to keep working on the idea that a blog is more about collaborating with yourself, even while it’s also opening up to others. There’s a kind of reflexivity that comes with writing and I know I don’t do enough. I guess the idea of writing is now so bound up in what I do for a living, that the fun has gone out of it. How do I get that back?
Perhaps I should just push some of my less fully formed ideas out and let them float. I don’t know.
I have way too many interests to maintain a coherent framework in this forum. Which perhaps suggests I need an incoherent framework.
To quote myself: “flooble”!