Tuesday, March 08, 2005

eponymous

so i started this blog with the intent of posting my work, but soon realised i had a personal conflict about doing it. so i let that slide for a bit. now i'm back to wanting to do that, and of course, the unresolved conflict rears its less-than-attractive head again.
the problem is that i'm not very enamoured of my poetry right now. i'm enjoying my short fiction more. so i wanna post the fiction because i think it's a better representation of where i'm at right now, as well as just caring more about its life- especially since there's another 'unnamed' blog i read (not mentioned or linked anywhere on mine) solely for the (admittedly limited-life-span) entertainment value of this chick completely fulfilling a stereotype that i previously thought might be urban myth, whose author posts what i think is horrid poetry, of her own creation. her appalling poems ruin the blog for me whenever they appear. i don't wanna be that chick. (of course, that statement can only have meaning if i'm not already that chick through my regular posts, so i deliver it with a larger-than-usual dose of optimism.)
however, my short fiction, while short, is still a lot longer than poetry, so i don't know how to go about this- each story is too long for an individual post, but when i think of breaking them up and posting one section at a time (episodically, if you will) all i can think is how much i hate that shit. i hate waiting for the next installment of something i'm reading (unless, like a blog, it's happening in real-time). it's why i stopped reading the dark tower series- i got sick of waiting for each next book to come out, so i put it down and decided to wait until he was done writing, then buy the collection and burn through them in order.
(needless to say, i was so thrilled that tolkien was already done with the hobbit and lord of the rings trilogy by the time i was 10 and learned of its existence and need to be read by me.) i know some like that kind of thing and get excited when they finish one piece and are eagerly anticipating its sequel, but i hate reading rations so much that i even hate when i'm reading a newspaper or magazine article and get partway through only to be told "continued on page 99". why the fuck can't they print one story at a time, using all of each subsequent page, moving on to another (page and/or story) only when one is finished?!
i don't care what perfectly satisfactory reason they have for it. i don't like it. and i take it personally. make it stop.

so i guess this is my appeal to anybody who might read this and think of revisiting me: tell me what you think of possibly reading short fiction broken up (versus ridiculously long posts), and if you like the episodic option (even for something not originally written that way) would it need to be updated daily to stay interesting and enjoyable?

walk good. read hard.

1 Comments:

Blogger Jake said...

Don't you want your adoring public to be salivating to see what will happen next?

Growing up as a comic-book fan, cliffhanging and waiting for what would happen (FOR A WHOLE MONTH) was part of the territory. It WAS torture, but it's also rewarding.

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