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At what point will you / do you / did you decide that your creative efforts (defined as widely as possible, to include stuff like blog-writing) were worthy of being seen by other people?

― Tom, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Why a blog and not a diary?

Or - why if your art springs from an inner compulsion to write/make art/compose, do you feel it should be shared?

― Tom, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

blog - way of saving me from having to write millions of meials to ppl letting them know what i was up to.

rest of logged off - continuation/reowrking/building up of review/interview writing that i wanted online

in general - writing, way of reaching out - for me, it's the easiest way, in person - too far to stetch

― Queen G, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

sci-fi short stories currently good but missing something - maybe next summer - wll send some out to ppl

lyrx + music - since age 18 i have inflicted these upon thee world - after hearing 'peel bands'

weblog - arm twisted by friends after being deemed ^most offensive person on Friends United^.

― , Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Likely my rampaging ego never gave it a second's thought. Then again, I do feel like I'm writing for myself first and foremost.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't think I've ever personally decided anything was fit for general-public consumption; I always want to save the ideas so I can use them later, once I've gotten better at the form. This is why I have 20-30 songs that I just keep cannibalizing and re-recording in various forms, and also why I rarely offer anything up except (a) as a joke, or (b) if someone else asks me to. For some reason I have little tolerance for the idea of an "early career" or public artistic growth: I've always had a thing for the idea of artists who suddenly emerge at the top of a game. So I write stories and I compare them to, like, Calvino, and when they lose I try something else. This is the most unhelpful habit ever.

But I may be getting over that in a week or two, by releasing a single. The statistical likelihood is that maybe 20 people will even hear this single, but I'm hoping it's the principle of putting it forward that counts.

― Nitsuh, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My general rule is, if I like it and know I can't do any better (at that time), then I will show and tell.

― jel --, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's about exhibitionism. Mixed w/ a small helping of talent. Also, such activities keep me writing out in the open (instead of all alone in my journal / diary, where I tend to chase my own tail). The worthiness is totally up to the reader; if I were REALLY concerned about whether what I wrote was worthy of being seen, there'd be nothing to read, and I wouldn't write @ all.

I need to do the same thing w/ my "songs", too. But enough about me - Nitsuh, more on your single, you mad fool!

― Daver, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, my creative efforts are generally communal, in some sense of the word. Making music or writing a blog doesn't exist in a vacuum, I do both by the inspiration I've found in other music/writing. I'd rather be some sort of participant or component of what's out there than an isolated instance.

In the way of what's worthy or not, if it meets my standards, it goes public wherever I may have to oppurtunity of putting it there. I'm not good at openly plugging what I do, since I get paranoid and overly-humble, but I do like to creep in with the sense of "here it is, do what you want with it (and hopefully enjoy it?)".

― Honda, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In the past er......as soon as I finished them. Now I'm more careful. Still hate the thought of really big music fans reading what I write though, except the dance related stuff.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I wrote most of and edited (i.e. included things from other people and fixed their spelling) a fanzine when I was in junior high school. So then.

― Josh, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I listened back to some songs I'd taped and they didn't immediately make me wince. They were then worthy of public consumption (they weren't really, but I thought so at the time).

― electric sound of jim, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i am very negative about the music i make. i try to make it good but it never sounds good enuff to me. but my friends seem to like it (after much coaxing i sometimes let people hear it) so i figure that i may as well let it loose.

― di, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Never, unless you count board scribblings/usenet ramblings/source code.

― RickyT, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

source code = unacknowledged legislators of the world

― mark s, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I AM THE LAW

― RickyT, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't consider my writing fot for others. I am thinking about getting rid of my blogs, because, I have to face the fact that they are shit. Mostly I write stuff and then destroy it. Or not even bother because it dun't come out right.

― alix, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Fot = fit. tits up.

― alix, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

dun't= don't. What can I say?

― alix, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Haven't got there yet. But that's not the reason I won't be participating in the FT birthday project, that's down to me having three projects I have to complete by next Wednesday for school.

― Nicole, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I thought dun't was an amusing regionalism. Arsemonkey is one of the ten best blogs in the UK, which isn't saying much admittedly.

― Tom, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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