I know that there is simply no way I will ever complete all of the draft posts I have sitting in my blog database. It’s pure blog purgatory, where I toy with some of these posts once every few months, but they never reach a postable state. In fact, most of these drafts are just titles, with no body to them at all, or body text consisting of one line to remind me what the post should be about. This paucity of text combined with the passage of time (every day a small sip of the water of Lethe), makes the probability that these posts will ever be completed quite low. The titles of these unfinished posts confront me each time I open my blog software as a series of blazing headlines demanding attention. The last time I looked at them all, it occurred to me they might be worth sharing in and of themselves – and so, here they are:
- Aggrandization of the oppositional
- Smallweb Part Two
- What’s in a name?
- Dust
- Hyperbole
- Why this blog is not very interesting anymore
- Supermodel taking a shit
Whew! There, I feel better, after sharing that with you.
Who knows – maybe someday, some of them will get written, now that I’ve outed how much is in the queue.
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Riveting first thoughts I say. Eager (though not impatient) to know how they go on.
So the question to you MK: what separates the ones that get primped and primed for the runway from the ones that stay elegantly behind the curtains?
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The ones that stay behind the curtains are usually ones that have either too little or too much meat on their bones. It’s hard (for me) to get to that “just right” stage. I like to get to a point where it’s long enough – I don’t want to post one or two line blog entries here, that’s what Twitter is for. At the same time, sometimes drafts becomes thickets of quotes, links, and text, and could easily be separated into two or more blog entries that would be more coherent that way.
Anyways, on this grey Saturday morning I’ve decided to jump in and attack some of these drafts, so we may start to see some movement in the queue at last!
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I vote for numbers 1, 2, 3 and 5. When you’ve got a minute.
I haven’t bothered with Top Friends because it’s almost as traumatic as denying friendship altogether. There is a reason why levels of frienship are navigated in real life in an organic, implicit, fluid sort of way. Make them explicit and you throw a right spanner in the works.
Defining friendship by concrete practical markers is an improvement, but just as friendship is not binary, so it is not (to me, at least) hierarchical or competitive either. These type of structures to me sort of go against the very ethos of friendship itself.
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