Notes

[oyceter]

1. Boxes still overtaking the condo. Fear they may be a) carnivorous, b) breeding, c) malevolent or d) all of the above. Send help.

2. Things at work are insane.

3. A Feast of Crows makes no sense when you have completely forgotten everything that happened in the earlier three books and can't even find all three books before the fourth is due at the librarty, much less read all of them. Thankfully, wonderful people put up summaries for all three previous books plus "The Hedge Knight." Unfortunately, I'm still confused after reading the summaries. Thankfully, said confusion isn't quite as confusing as completely forgetting everything.

4. I'm at that weird space in which I'm not sure what to blog about. Either that, or I'm not sure what my LJ is for, or if anyone reads, and etc. Do you guys ever feel like that? What do you do about it?

Comments

[sophia-helix.livejournal.com]

Heh. I feel like #4 all the time. Or -- I know what people like (book reviews, episode reviews, recipes and popular-pairing/fandom fanfic), but don't feel like making any of those kinds of entries.

When I find myself writing just a bunch of boringly-written personal crap, yet am not in the mood to really do in-depth posts, I try to do short, pithy, funny posts, ten lines or less, with either an entertaining conversation or short thought/occurrence. That way I feel like I'm keeping up with blogging, but I'm resisting the tendency to journal instead of produce content, which I hate doing. That's what the privacy lock is for. *g*

[oyceter]

Yeah, it's weird because I do have stuff I'm going to write (I need to write up two books), but I keep feeling like the book write-ups are silly or something. Hard to say...

But yeah, when I have stuff in public, I try to have it be entertaining at the least. It's weird. I don't know when I switched from blogging largely for myself to being aware of my LJ as potential entertainment or something.

[sophia-helix.livejournal.com]

It's that eternal conflict between content and journal. I absolutely hate getting no comments on an entry, or just one or two ones about my icon or something, so I actively strive to write posts that interest people, or at the very least are solid content. I had no comments, for example, on my V for Vendetta post about the comic and the movie, but that was OK because I felt like I'd done good reviews and I was glad to have the entry in my memories for future reference. Ditto episode reviews, recipes, picture posts, etc.

The ones I hate are the rambling, semi-personal collections of various thoughts, and those are the ones people are most likely to skim. So if I can't produce solid content, I go for the pithy -- again, even if I don't get any comments (I often don't), they're something I like to have in my archives as examples of decent writing.

I don't know either when this stopped being a place to bitch and mor eof a creative work in progress, or when I turned into such a comment whore, but there it is. Five years of blogging will do that to a gal, I guess. *g*

[oyceter]

I, eh, end up being so bored by my own whining that half the time I type up three sentences and decide not to finish the post! Given the amount of whiny posts lately, that's a scary number of unfinished posts that you lucky people aren't subject to!

The weirdest thing for me is, I love comments, but the book posts get the least comments. So when I write them, I know it's content, but they usually get less commentary than my random life posts (like this one, heh).

[jinian.livejournal.com]

I often don't comment on your book posts because they're all perceptive and thorough and stuff. You've seen my book posts -- I'm all "I liked it because it had kittycats!" -- so there is a little inferiority thing. But I like them a lot and always read them.

[oyceter]

Hee! Sorry, it's just funny because I always think, "Wah, I can't even call these book reviews because they're so random and scattered!"

I totally do the "I liked it because it had dragons!" thing. Or, in my case, "Eeeee tragic angsty backstory of the emotionally withdrawn heroine and the sweet boy who loves her!"

And thank you for the nice comments!

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

4. Yes. Lately, not post, I guess.

[sophia-helix.livejournal.com]

You do the same thing as me, though! I think that's where I picked up the trick -- write something short and funny, if you can't be long and brilliant. :)

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

But that's not a strategy! That's just internet addiction.

[sophia-helix.livejournal.com]

Eh, it keeps your hand in. At least, that's how I look at it. Plus, when going back through my archives, I'd rather see them peppered with short n' witty than long dryspells punctuated by OMGWOE!! filtered posts. *g*

[katie-m.livejournal.com]

...oops.

[oyceter]

Woe, I miss your posts! Which is not to give you pressure to write more. But I like all of them.

Isn't that odd? I figure most people on LJ must feel like this or something, but everyone else out there is going, "Write more!"

[rilina.livejournal.com]

Re #4: Yes. Often. Though my sense with book and manga posts is that people are reading them, even though comments don't necessarily make that clear.

Sometimes I go back to writing in my paper journal, because I realize what I really want to post is actually somethiing that doesn't need to be on LJ. And that's fine. LJ's always still there when I want to come back from it.

Speaking of which, I'm probably due for another mini-vacation from LJ soon.

[oyceter]

It's weird, because I intellectually know that people are reading. And then there's the five-year-old in my head going "Where did everyone go? Hello?"

I haven't written in my paper journal for a long time! I think as long as I get the chance to vent to people or something, I don't feel the need to.

[oursin.livejournal.com]

Things are v quiet at the moment - someone else was commenting on this on my flist today.

[oyceter]

Yeah, that's what I thought too! I wasn't sure though... wonder what it is.

[oursin.livejournal.com]

Boxes still overtaking the condo

Perhaps this is stealth art happening: cf this in the Tate Modern Turbine Hall (http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/whiteread/default.shtm).

[oyceter]

My boxes are alive and think they are artists! Whatever shall happen to me and the rats? ;)

[desayunoencama.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting the R.R. martin summaries link. Will refresh my memory now before tackling book 4!
:-)

[oyceter]

I know! I was so happy when I found them! I started reading bk. 4 and was just totally lost.

[oracne.livejournal.com]

If I don't know what to blog about, I cheat and post poetry.

[oyceter]

Hee!

I cheat and post on whatever book I read ...