I Like to Leave Myself a Little Room
However, no matter how well-planned out my posts for the week may be, I like to leave myself a little room for spur-of-the-moment posts, those ideas that pop into my head and have to be shared immediately or for newsworthy items.
I guess it's a metaphor for life, really. You should plan for the future and do your best to work things out ahead of time, but don't get too attached to those plans, coz the cosmos just might toss you a curve ball (or you might simply change your mind) and then you'll need to be free to act on those demands or impulses. And as long as you've left yourself a little wiggle room, you should be able to react without losing too much of your equilibrium in the process. Dang, does that sound sensible or what?
Built to Spill--"The Plan" mp3 off Keep it Like a Secret (buy)
Exactly. I almost posted the very same idea today - I have several things
ready and waiting and then had a spur of the moment post write itself this
morning - but I've saved it up for later in the week instead! It's nice to
feel on top of the game, in however restricted an area and however briefly.
that's funny. and it is nice to feel on top of the game even if it is only
in this one small area of life, i agree! : )
See I need to plan more, but most of the time I don't. I mean for the big
guns I plan...Like for example Beirut and Radiohead are coming this week
and I have known for a long time I will post Beirut and of course Radiohead
but other than that little bands take me awhile to pick but I don't plan
them really.
blogging is probably the one area in my life that i actually do plan
sufficiently for. the rest of it kind of gets done at the last minute.
except for carpooling. now that i'm working some again, i have to make all
these arrangements for rides. ugh! so yeah, carpools and blogs i've got
under control, the rest, forget it! : )
It sounds like we blog in almost the EXACT same way. So, naturally, I
approve. :)
coming from you, chad, i take that as a compliment! : )
I'd like to operate that way, but my time is so short these days that I
almost never write in advance. Occasionally I'll half-draft a post a day
or so beforehand, but usually what you see is just what comes out at the
moment. The trade-off? I've had to accept that I'm not going to be posting
daily. But then I'm OK with that.
i think another reason i work in advance is that i get spurts of ideas, and
if i don't write them down when i think of them, then they get lost and i
can't remember them. they don't all make it into full-blown posts, but a
lot of them do, eventually.
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