regarding the idea that their grocery list is more important than yours: I post all kinds of crap on my LJ. Not because I think they're more or less important than anything. But because I feel like it and I paid for my LJ so I can do what I want (within legal limits).
But I'm not a professional writer.
I agree that your blogjournal compartmentalization is a good thing, and I know some writers on LJ use filters to do the same thing. But just because some writer blogs about every detail doesn't necessarily mean that they think those details are so important that everyone will want to read them. Maybe they just want to.
I am often inspired to play Devil's Advocate. I think it's a character flaw.
And I can't help but consider Stephen Colbert of the Colbert Report when you speak of authors getting their fans to do stuff. If NASA lets him, he'll have gotten his viewers to cause the newest module of the ISS to be called "Colbert" instead of "Serenity"... And that's just his latest "trick".
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Date: 2009-03-12 03:46 pm (UTC)I post all kinds of crap on my LJ. Not because I think they're more or less important than anything. But because I feel like it and I paid for my LJ so I can do what I want (within legal limits).
But I'm not a professional writer.
I agree that your blogjournal compartmentalization is a good thing, and I know some writers on LJ use filters to do the same thing. But just because some writer blogs about every detail doesn't necessarily mean that they think those details are so important that everyone will want to read them. Maybe they just want to.
I am often inspired to play Devil's Advocate. I think it's a character flaw.
And I can't help but consider Stephen Colbert of the Colbert Report when you speak of authors getting their fans to do stuff. If NASA lets him, he'll have gotten his viewers to cause the newest module of the ISS to be called "Colbert" instead of "Serenity"... And that's just his latest "trick".