Media The Blogging Life vs. The Writing Life
posted by on May 2 at 10:17 AM
Sullivan links to a blogger who says they’re not compatible, and is calling it quits. The blogger who’s had enough writes:
I say this recognizing that some … find no conflict between blogging and doing solid, admirably accomplished and serious work … Somehow they make the time to post posts that are well worth reading, that seem to enrich their own perspectives as much as they do the content of this site and blogdom, and (I trust and hope) still devote as much attention as they need and want to what I think of more lasting work, i.e., the stuff requiring ink. (I can hear the cyber-howls coming already …) The Web is a better, more interesting, and more truly informing place for their efforts…So it works for them - seems too, anyway, and I hope appearances here do not deceive. Yet somehow, for the most part, it doesn’t work for me. My time has never felt more finite, and there inevitably seems something either more pressing or more lastingly valuable to devote it to: a story due, a book to develop, a child to read to, a son’s baseball game to attend, a pile of books to read before I die: the hope and desire, as reader and writer, to create the sort of experience so clearly had by the man in Wayne Booth’s painting (held by me above), titled “Man Reading.”
Debbie Downer
I've been reading Sullivan's "The Conservative Soul," and I have to say the fellow's an even better (book) author than he is a blogger. Or maybe I'm just noticing the obvious -- that books are a more "powerful" medium than blogs.
Sullivan's a perfect example of where the blogger and the author really complement each other. The book Sullivan adds some heft to the blog Sullivan, and the blog Sullivan shines some spotlight on the book Sullivan.
It's a unique talent, those who can do both well. The time element alone would stop most people. I'm envious of those who seemingly do it all so well.
This is bullshit. As an author, I can say that you need a blog to promote your book online. As a blogger, I can say that you need a book to validate your online writing. I respect this guy's need to create more time in his life, but blaming the blog is a cop-out, like people who complain that they can't have a cell phone because they'd talk to much.
I'd rather read a soldier's blog.
Oh.
Wait.
I can't ... the Pentagon is cracking down on those too, making us even more like Red Russia every day in every way.
Your papers, comrade citizen?
.. for this I served? ..
Hello everyone, wanna be part of some kind of community, possible here? anyone here?
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