I'm taking it easy this week, savoring a little time off at work and bowing to the inevitable summer traffic drop. I thought it might be a good time to test-drive a new feature.
Welcome to Dueling Comments, where I print my favorite comments that I've spotted in publishing blogs. There are some smart people lurking in the comments sections of blogs, so I'm scrounging around the Internets to find the crazy, the useful, and the crazy-useful wisdom that they leave behind.
Over at Gawker, Special K weighed in with these smart thoughts about blogging authors--something all fledgling writers and aspiring bloggers should take to heart. Check it out:
"some bloggers can't write coherently beyond an 800-word limit ... and, like writers-workshop dropouts, also make the mistake that general-audience readers give a flying fuck about their oh-so-unique personal experiences. But there's also this... good blogs tend to be funny, witty, snarky. And not ony is it hard to be funny, witty, snarky for extended periods of time, it can actually be hard to read -- well, snarky at any rate -- for extended periods of time."
On the other side of the coin, Jungle--purportedly a publishing insider--explains why they advise many writers not to blog.
Please, dear God, no more writer's blog posts on the lines of "I started this story [and then they give the title!]] last night" or "I'm almost finished with [again, title of unfinished & unpublished piece] but need to [whatever]."
This is almost as bad as blogging about last night's dreams.
Posted by: Richard | June 30, 2008 3:47 AM | Permalink to Comment