I couldn't resist. I stopped for about 5 minutes, and I can only think about the meta-topics of the last post and the comments or thoughts that could result from it.
1. Blogger posts, one at a time, not like story.
2. Personal reference, not exactly understandable.
3. Is this book or blog?
Those are the meta-topics, in their keyword form; in the form where I can short-summarize them and give you a vague idea as to what I'm going to talk about.
1. I'm writing this as blog posts. Do I revise them? Do I note the changes? Would that make reading the post cumbersome? Should I just repost it? But wouldn't that make my blog look messy? And how can I write a book like this, supposing that that's what it's going to turn out to be, while also talking about how it is that I'm going to write it? Isn't that boring? (lol Because, of course, seeing the struggle is extremely boring and isn't the basis of many novels and movies.) I guess not. What I'm worried about is that I'll want to revise the wording, and that will mess everything up. Well... better to write something about worry about editing it, than to not write and not even have that option, I suppose.
2. I used a lot of personal references that people might not recognize or understand, and I skipped a lot around the subjects; I didn't transition as well as I'd've liked to. How do I revise that without wiping the post clean and starting again, and how does that not make for writing being impossible? Where do I add the transition? Using brackets ("[" and "]")? [If I want to add something, should I add this sort of note, and then include the date at the top or bottom? Or would that be unnecessarily confusing? (10-30-11) No, it would just be annoying. But I like having those date references... I just don't want them displayed so prominently? Maybe I could change the font and such to make them less annoying and less noticeable. 10-30-11. Yeah, that looks good. I might just do that.]
... But what if I want to get rid of some text? What do I do for that? If it's deleted... it's sort of gone. And if there's a lot of text I delete... Maybe I could make it smaller, like the date, so it would both not take up as much room, and still be there. [Like this. 10-30-11.] (The date is included so you and I know when I considered it obsolete.) Yeah. That might work. But what if it's a long string of text? An entire section that I want to delete? I'll copy and paste this paragraph and experiment with it:
[... But what if I want to get rid of some text? What do I do for that? If it's deleted... it's sort of gone. And if there's a lot of text I delete... Maybe I could make it smaller, like the date, so it would both not take up as much room, and still be there. Like this. Yeah. That might work. But what if it's a long string of text? An entire section that I want to delete? I'll copy and paste this paragraph and experiment with it. 10-30-11.] Hm. I guess that'll do.
3. "Is this a book or a blog?"
By this I mean, how exactly can I be writing a book through blogging it? Is it that I take out the "book" parts when I'm finished, and string those together? I guess that's indeed what it would be. Let's try it! (This applies to both "books" - the genius and creativity one, and the dystopia one.)
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Sunday, October 30, 2011
I Couldn't Resist - Three Meta-Topics
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