Serious question. You know you were saying you might start a 'real blog' to mostly-replace your LJ? I've been considering that myself, but the trouble is that I've got a very poor internal quality control. I'm aware that my writing in this journal has become better over the last year or so, but as I look back at those entries, there are a few that I know are good and a few that I know are terrible, but with most of them I'm just not sure.
... and at the same time, my only external indicator of what is or isn't a good entry is the comments section, but I'm not sure it necessarily has anything to do with the quality of the writing. For instance, things that I've written that I thought were very good might have gotten no comments because they were actually terrible, or it could have been that the 5 or 10 people who actually read them simply had nothing to say. Similary, things that were just silly and personal, like my most recent entry about cutting my hair, get lots of comments simply because my readers are mostly my friends, and for some reason friends are always interested in haircuts.
(Yes, I realise this comment is several weeks old and I could just wait until you get home tomorrow and ask you this in person, but for some reason it feels important to write this down. Do you even get notifications for comment replies?)
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Serious question. You know you were saying you might start a 'real blog' to mostly-replace your LJ? I've been considering that myself, but the trouble is that I've got a very poor internal quality control. I'm aware that my writing in this journal has become better over the last year or so, but as I look back at those entries, there are a few that I know are good and a few that I know are terrible, but with most of them I'm just not sure.
... and at the same time, my only external indicator of what is or isn't a good entry is the comments section, but I'm not sure it necessarily has anything to do with the quality of the writing. For instance, things that I've written that I thought were very good might have gotten no comments because they were actually terrible, or it could have been that the 5 or 10 people who actually read them simply had nothing to say. Similary, things that were just silly and personal, like my most recent entry about cutting my hair, get lots of comments simply because my readers are mostly my friends, and for some reason friends are always interested in haircuts.
(Yes, I realise this comment is several weeks old and I could just wait until you get home tomorrow and ask you this in person, but for some reason it feels important to write this down. Do you even get notifications for comment replies?)