Immanence

On another redesign

It is the poor carpenter who blames his tools. I should focus more on the writing and less on blog journal templates. In my defense, the last two layouts were plain weird and scared people away — and in a way, meant hiding behind my tools, the list-of-posts format hiding my writing.

If I was a truly great writer my text would look good even if illegibly scribbled on dirty old walls. In my defense, I never really thought (consciously) that better designs flattered my writing, and much of this dancing and spinning of templates stems from my general geekery, while the actual act of writing would have to tap the creative side that has been open less times than I wish it would, particularly because writing in english is the essayist’s equivalent of wearing high heel shoes — makes you look powerful but fucks up with your feet at the end of the day.

The list of posts format was an attempt to avoid hiding good texts behind new goop — in the past, I’ve gotten to the point of not posting to keep giving good writing more visibility time. But hey, let’s face it — this is a blog blog journal . I’ve published quite a few deep essays in it, which are all very googleable and have even been plagiarized on Yahoo Answers. But I should keep to the blog journal format, lest I spend precious time writing when I should be out there living. Life’s too short to try and attempt the grand essay format.

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Act Of Writing, Blog Templates, Carpenter, Creative Side, Essay Format, Essayist, Essays, Focus, Goop, High Heel Shoes, Layouts, More Visibility, Old Walls, Plagiarized, Precious Time, Scared People, Stems, Texts, Tools, Writing In English, Yahoo, Yahoo Answers

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