Some Writing Ideas

I'm on vacation, as I've been saying. This takes a lot of time out of your day, counterintuitively. So, I figured I'd just do something that is essentially my own bookkeeping. This is a list of some writing projects I've either undertaken or am planning on undertaking. If you're at all interested, comment and tell me which of these you'd be most interested in seeing.


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The Blog as Masturbation

What do people want?

That's a question I've been thinking about lately, for a variety of reasons. Partially because I'm not gainfully employed in a full-time career, partially because I've always felt myself to be capable of creating praise-worthy content, and partially because I watched The Social Network again.

But no, this won't turn into another piece on that movie.

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Don't Call It A Comeback

Or, you know, you probably could call it a comeback. Sorry, LL.

2010 was a wacky year for me personally. Moving, finding jobs, gaining jobs, losing jobs, working jobs, having no money, begging for money, actually having some money, making friends, losing friends, becoming disconnected from friends.

These things, they happen.

2011, on the other hand, looks like the year of me having a plan.

Monologues and Dialogs in Shakespeare and Facebook

There are times I think I like reading Shakespeare more than I like seeing it performed. Part of that is language, of course. Fired at you by modern performers, all quick-witted like they actually know what they're saying, it's easy to get lost in the archaic language. The man's references and double entendres were intelligent, but without the benefit of having his version of English being as clear to me as my own, I won't notice them unless I have the time to read the words on my own. Some of Shakespeare's best double entendres actually need research, such as the title of one play, "Much Ado About Nothing," that seems innocuous until you realize that "Nothing" was a Elizabethan slang term for sex.

The Aesthetics of Non-Visual Art

I overuse line breaks.

It's true.

Not line breaks in the sense of a physical line that divides two sections of text, but in the sense that I like to set single sentences in their own paragraphs. There's a lot of reasons for this. It allows me to bring a greater attention to those particular sentences. By singling these sentences out, I lend them a gravitas that they wouldn't have, tucked into the adjacent paragraph.