The style of the essayist is that of an extremely intelligent, highly commonsensical person talking, without stammer and with impressive coherence, to him- or herself, and to anyone else who cares to eavesdrop.
~Joseph Epstein~
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Sigh.
That’s a definition of a good blog too, in my opinion.
Yet.. so hard to DO. : )
Let us not stop trying!
Fresca, you are someone who can pull it off; many times you have done so. I don’t know how much rewriting you do to your posts. For me, the lesson is becoming clearer all the time – good writing is rewriting and revision. And to put that kind of effort into blogging is, for me, rather crazy-making. So I go back to the idea that it’s socialization, and blogging is that, in a good way, but I’m terrible at socialization, because it’s so off the cuff, like good social blog posts. Ahh…
These days, as I have many times before, I’m considering pulling way back on the blog. In fact, I’m not keeping up at all, really, with others this week. But by next week I may have different thoughts on the matter. Anyway, back to essaying for now.
Thank you so much for your encouragement—it really means a lot.
What a GREAT idea to have a guest blogger—I think I would like to ask someone to write a guest blog too, as I’m thinking about the French & Indian War to the extent that I’m not feeling very creative about blogging—because, in fact, I do put a crazy amount of energy into it, when I’m really going at it…
Like everything else, it’s a balancing act, eh?
Don’t fall totally off, now! : )