Since it’s gonna be a gloomy weather day in Vermont, I figured I may as well shove breakfast down my throat and get to work on some quote posts. I actually succeeded in this venture. Somehow I managed to write two entire 1000+ word Quote Posts before a painful brain fog set in. I was planning to do a few more edits to things today, but they can wait…

One thing I definitely want to write about sometime this week is how I see my writing as something to be consistently updated and added upon. For example, my quote posts are often on topics which may send me down a deep rabbit hole, such as the Holmes quotes about trifles actually being important clues. I see these posts as being intermediaries and launching points for full fledged chapter length essays destined to be forever bound in a tome of works.

Furthermore I find that my writers notebook bucketing is helping me much better organize my thoughts and giving certain ideas more time to simmer on the back burner. In the past I used to post random bits from my notebooks. While some were good ideas, they were badly presented, and the content suffered for it. A few of these I recently ejected from The Phoenix Desertsong but they may still be revisited and reworked as many of my more recent feature articles emerged from these archived initial missteps into topics that deserved much more in depth attention.

I also have discovered in my adult life that I’m actually a better editor than a writer. That may sound strange, but I have a lot of practice as my own editor. I’ve also edited essays, papers, and articles for years for little to no pay just because I find editing a strange sort of fun. I need to write about this for sure.  After all, even the greatest authors need great editors. Are editors just failed writers? That’s a question I really need to answer, because I believe that’s a massive oversimplification. 

(I would eventually write about this very subject…)