The Vineyards

So what has been keeping me from writing, now? Still school - that is, college - work?

That too, yes, but that did not prevent me from writing two posts since that last one you see published. I removed them both.

Never had I done that before, not even in the LiveJournal days. Back then, once I started writing a post, but stopped in the middle, "This is worthless and uninteresting". I wrote something else a few days later. But to write, post, and remove, this was the first time. And second.

Both posts are still safe here, marked as drafts. The second one may be published someday again, after it is heavily altered - it had a flaw at its base, that I may correct with some further thinking (or rather, not correct, but work around so it is hidden and makes sense even though it says something that cannot possibly be agreed to - rhetorics, wonderful). The first post is likely to never return, but that is actually decided by that devious entity I mentioned, not by me. It stays there, thus.

The post about music waits a little longer. And I am seriously considering following the example of my good sister and starting a second blog solely for tales. Maybe in that format I will actually write some of the stories I have been meaning to.

It is funny, you see - I always felt most comfortable writing stories in two programs: Netscape Composer and Outlook Express. Netscape Composer, because that is where I wrote the majority of my Dark Ages texts. Got used to it. Outlook Express, because I have a taste for randomly adding fiction or twists to e-mail - like a huge story about why the city of Undine (in Temuair) had a big lake in its middle, or one case where I started each paragraph of a mail with each letter of the alphabet, in order, A to Z.

To be honest, however, the Movable Type entry box is not a very good place to write. It shows less than twenty lines at a time. Maybe if I rearrange it I can get better results. Or maybe I can use Mozilla Composer. Or even Word, for spellchecking.

But now that I think of it, I could, instead of creating a new blog, write the tales right here, but use the Extended Entry function to keep clutter down - my normal posts are long enough without my stories among them. But I would still keep them somewhere in separate, so they do not get lost in here.

The conclusion to that post about music will wait a bit. I am sure the first part did not cause a good impression anyway, so I am in no hurry anymore.

That will be all.

Posted by Etienne at June 30, 2004 08:36 PM