tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725975489373372070.post8660270352304591261..comments2024-03-02T17:35:58.818-08:00Comments on Spike is Best: Deliver. Sign name. Await reply.Paul Stilwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04446241126728692642noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725975489373372070.post-64787193812172870982010-06-02T07:49:21.572-07:002010-06-02T07:49:21.572-07:00+JMJ+
Paul, what you wrote about the "blog-h...+JMJ+<br /><br />Paul, what you wrote about the "blog-home of my real writing" has stuck with me. It's certainly an apt metaphor. Yes, it's true that writing needs a home--and I certainly abandoned it when I made my impulsive decision to let Sancta Sanctis die.<br /><br />But now I wonder whether a better solution would be for me to move it cross-country to Shredded Cheddar. I think the small readership I managed to pick up from my frolicking on book blogs and horror blogs really likes the "quick takes" style you mention, but lately I've wanted to do more than just make lists (or just punk out). I'm not sure how a more reflective post on would pan out, though, because all my reflections are so inevitably <i>Christian</i>--and I certainly don't want to attract certain old readers of Sancta Sanctis to my new "home" by putting out the stuff they used to like. But I guess <i>that</i> is inevitable.Enbrethilielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03414765854670926854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725975489373372070.post-47743284252874638302010-05-29T23:56:56.983-07:002010-05-29T23:56:56.983-07:00I was very glad to see you revive Sancta Sanctis, ...I was very glad to see you revive Sancta Sanctis, in part, for that reason you mention (not your only reason, nor mine); because your writing is very good there. (Your latest ones are just excellent.)<br /><br />I wasn't reading Sancta Sanctis for long before you decided to shut it down, but I could tell from the amount I had read that it was (and is) the blog-home of your real writing - of a kind unlike any to be found on other blogs. (It is nice to read one's own past writing that holds up!)<br /><br />With that said, your posts at Shredded Cheddar - compilation/fun-loving/quick-take oriented - are still superb for what they are - that is, for what they were intended to be. The Tutor Tales and Punk Cath Thoughts are probably better than many other blogs' best material. For "reactive" writing it is good, *not* a sign that you are one of those pathetic artists. And I'm a little surprised at you saying most of it is in reaction to the usual book-review template, as I've always considered it simply a natural extension of your personality (though not at all in the sense that you are merely reactionary), and I still consider it so! :)<br /><br />No, I can definitely see you are not writing for prizes. But you already know you aren't.<br /><br />(Captchas...just when you think all they do is spout jibberish as you pass through...*sigh*)Paul Stilwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04446241126728692642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725975489373372070.post-825442343008610912010-05-29T03:08:36.071-07:002010-05-29T03:08:36.071-07:00+JMJ+
That used to happen with me and my writing ...+JMJ+<br /><br />That used to happen with me and my writing as well. On some days, I'm the best writer in the world; on other days, I'm just awful. I used to dread going over stuff I had written just months before, because I knew I'd hate it.<br /><br />I was pleasantly surprised, some time ago, when I reread old posts I had blogged (not just on Blogger) and found that they actually stood up. (Heck, some of the older stuff was even better than some of the newer writing!) There's still room for much editing, of course. Yet there are moments when I wonder whether my satisfaction with my writing has increased only because my learning curve has plateaued.<br /><br />One reason I revived Sancta Sanctis again was that I realised that it is the home of some of my best writing, and that I have never had similar standards for Shredded Cheddar. Of course, I could also go in the other direction and make Shredded Cheddar more reflective. Surely I have better things to say about books and the art of reading than what I've been posting. Most of the stuff about books is primarily a reaction against the review-based template of book blogging; but if I can't do more than play punk and react against situations I don't like, one whole year after discovering the book blogosphere, then I'm as bad as the pathetic artists you mention who change their work in the hope of winning prizes.<br /><br />(Word verification: <i>marry</i>. Even the captchas are rubbing my face in it these days.)Enbrethilielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03414765854670926854noreply@blogger.com