Not Quite a Blog

Folks out there in Bloglandia seem really often to run up against the same kinds of concerns at the same moments, without necessarily knowing about one another, as though there’s something in the zeitgeist that suddenly makes its way to consciousness in multiple locales at once. Witness Shauna’s thoughts on the cumulative effects of her recent blog silence and Mel’s musings on the downside of binge writing. Both intersect with something I’ve been pondering for the last couple of months—that when I write every day, whether here at Planned Obsolescence or elsewhere, on other projects, writing gets easier and easier. Not just in terms of the production of sentences, though that of course comes more smoothly, but also in the production of thoughts, of things worth writing about. (from Kathleen's "Practice, Practice, Practice")