I've decided to write the More Space essay as a series of blog installments. I had to trash everything I've written thus far -- the content and gist was great but the writing itself sucked in my personal opinion.
Then I had the thought that writing directly to the blog could help me "prime the pump" and recover my voice. I'm used to doing that. So I plan to be quite prolific in the next few days as I'm already behind.
For me, a surefire way to lose the flow of writing is to be overly sensitive and overly aware of the audience. (In this case, a more general business audience than typically reads here.) I found I was self-censoring myself in my mind so much that by the time the words hit the page it was doomed.
This is all really raw stuff as I'm writing it. I'm starting over from stratch and writing as if I was blogging (well, without the links that is). Links will be nearly nonexistent as its intended for a book and thus has to stand alone as is. (We'll add links plus extra info in the accompanying wiki.)
Here's the accompanying wiki for additional resources and edits. Just go to evelyn.jot.com and both the username and password are the same: morespace. I invite you to participate on an ongoing basis.
"He didn't write Death of a Salesman; he released it. It was there inside him, stored up waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit."
Stage & film director, Elia Kazan (1909–2003) on Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.
Posted by: sam parker | Feb 19, 2005 at 05:36 AM