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August 03, 2005
Obscure link of interest to only one particular reader
And not just because I have zero interest in this object’s supposed function.
I’ve gotten very consumer-happy recently. It’s my way of avoiding doing some work that’s been staring me in the face for the past month. How rude!
Actually. For a supposedly creative person I have been doing minimal amounts of creative stuff this year. My ‘Background reading’ page says I started the blog in part to practise writing, but that pretty wilfully ignores something I’ve realised many times: writing magazine articles will only make you better at writing magazine articles. Writing blog entries will only make you better at writing blog entries. And so on. If I was really focused on becoming good at writing, I’d practice writing in the form I wanted to become good at. Random blog entries are no substitute for actual creative discipline.
But I am glad I started AWVC, if only so that future entries of this nature can be handily paraphrased with a link to this one.
Posted by Oliver at August 3, 2005 11:45 AM
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AWVC uses the Markdown formatting system, a very simple way to format your comments. Whitespace is converted directly. Enclose a phrase with asterisks to italicise, and two asterisks (**) to embolden. A good introduction to the Markdown format is available here.
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