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]

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!