It’s odd that most of this week I’ve been dwelling on the nature of blogging. As one of the adages go that I’ve heard about job tasks: you can either have all of what you want, have it right, or have it quickly. Pick two.
I’m reminded that blogging always seems to have this “right now” expectation, which tends to make it stressful to try and satisfy the other two. Personally, I’m reminded of that in using my blogging time this week to think on topics and organize my thoughts. We always inevitably fail in satisfying all three.
I’m reminded that God, in the person of Christ does not fail. He always does all of what is necessary, does it correctly, and does it in the right time.
This said, my links of interest for this week:
Deti writes on why Christian girls like bad boys.
As companies and organizations always go, when they can’t compete in the marketplace they always go for the lawyers or other means. Feminists are going the censorship route with Facebook.
It seems that people are up-in-arms about a Facebook app that helps Facebook friends hook up for casual sex. While my personal position on this should be well known, the article is interesting because it admits what a lot of men already realize:
“The saddest part about these ‘come get it’ websites is that it sends the message to our young girls that it’s okay to give yourself away for free to someone that could care less about you or your well-being,” says Hall, who is also the author of “For Single Ladies Only: Everything You Need to Know to Date Smarter.”
So the whole arrangement of sex between men and women, married or not, is one of prostitution? That seems to be the only conclusion I can take out of that phrase.
MGTOW is an element of Marriage 1.0
The blue-pill is an artificial joy.
Stardusk on the “it’s not women it’s feminism” lie (akin to “it’s not people that kill people it’s guns that kill people”)
What is going Galt? (a super-set of MGTOW)
I’m also looking at doing some organization of the content on the blog for newer readers, so if you have any suggestions on the essentials to read here, please suggest them. Until next time.
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As one of the adages go that I’ve heard about job tasks: you can either have all of what you want, have it right, or have it quickly. Pick two.
You seem to think about blogging similarly to the way I do, having the same concerns etc. I vacillate between worrying about some mission and between just doing a good job in this hobby. Since I am not huge, in terms of readers, its off to imagine a mission until I think about faith and men’s issues being individual appeals
On quality. I allow that to drift all over the place. I am settled into the fact that am not a GREAT writer. I have to say it is humbling at first, but Ive digested that and its over. One reason stems from what you said about *quickly*. Often my posts are reactions that I am busting to get done. If I took time and conceived ideas, wrote and rewrote drafts, etc. the writing would be much better indeed. But still not GREAT when I see some other’s abilities as comparison. I did once manage to pass vetting at The Associated Press and was a regular writer when they had a religion and Spirituality page, like the rest it was a place where papers and mags could pick up your work. None were picked up, but I did make the cut so I am convinced I can meet some minimum standard with effort.
Couple weeks ago I took a writing class. It was a work thing, an AMA seminar on business writing. Ive written two posts since then, and whether its obvious or not, the class made some difference and allowed me to do better, quickly.
Organizing is something I have to tackle. You do a great job of keeping your posts linked together and in shared context where possible. Organizing would help me do that better.
Anyway, rambling about the topic…
Yes, you want to do something right and yet have it be something of quality, too. Personally I just go for the audience of one, would I want to read this on someone’s blog?
I don’t know, necessarily, how well I’m doing with my writing quality, but I’m trying and hoping it improves. I noticed on the posts marked “First Iteration”, which I’ve written before and basically just edit have a lot of changes in them. For example, the last one got reduced by 600 words from its first presentation. Excessive word count for what’s being communicated has been something that I’ve wanted to watch, so I’ve been trying to keep it to around 1000-1200 words per blog post.
I know I have that same effect with my newer stuff when I can let them sit. But there’s always that pressure of “right now”, which shows up in your blog stats and when you have ideas that you sit on too long for whatever reason (my comments on Venker for instance). Blogsphere time goes by very quickly.
Organization is usually something that requires much thought, I’ve found. Again, a time issue though. Like in my exposure to other things, it could be said that 90% of the work happens away from the keyboard. It’s important to me, personally, since I find I don’t do well when I just open up a new post and start writing without a plan in mind. Hence this last week, since I exhausted the initial post plans I developed when I started the blog.
Anyway, it’s good to discuss these things and learn from one another. Like I’ve always said, this has been a learn as I go adventure, and I’m sure there will be more that I’ll learn as time goes by.
I think modern Christians are wrong on prayers, answers and God’s timing. The Lord answers prayers yes, but often that answer is no. Not wait, not yes, but no, deal with it.
I think this is a large, foundational problem with the church and modern Christians
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Yes. This is the manifestation of the Personal Jesus. The Holy Hamster takes something like 2 Cor 1:20 and runs with it like you described. So God becomes an affirmation of the person rather than a sovereign holy God.
Organizing thoughts and cutting length was the core of the class I took. Its interesting that, at 50 years old, I discovered even basic grammatical errors and grammar was not the thrust of the class but necessarily comes up in that setting. The tools offered for organizing them cutting, paragraph and sentence length rules of thumb, certain words to never use because they add nothing but a useless word, etc. Then comes the hard part. Write the thing, let it sit long enough to fully take mind off it, best if overnight, then read it again and start cutting. It works if you have the patience even though it seems like common sense. The class was for biz writing so not perfectly translatable, but can’t hurt and I proved the adage one is never too old.