I'm in meta-mode today, so I'm going to complain about one of the difficulties of the whole daily column thing: some ideas just require too much development to crank out in a day. It takes me time to think about things. I have to sit. Ponder. Somehow manage to keep from being distracted. On the one hand, writing every day helps to make sure I actually do this, but on the other, I'm just sitting on a couple of interesting but not-yet-developed ideas.
It irritates me. More so because I constantly worry about running out of new and interesting things to say, and at the same time I know I haven't expressed even a tiny fraction of what I'm interested in talking about. Life is difficult. I know that much. And it feels like I'm talking up these things I write, when in reality a lot of it is trivial, and even the more interesting bits suffer from being turned out before they're ready.
There is compensation, though. It's better to produce, and I'd be very unlikely to write at all without deadlines. I have to believe that.
I think tomorrow I'm going to try to produce an index page. I don't expect it to be too hard.
words from chris, 2009-03-14 02:30:54, los angeles
