Planting Evergreens and Other Oddities

byTitaWorks

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3 years ago

I am learning a heck of a lot about the difference between producing the prolific fast-and-dirty posts that are here-today-and-gone-tomorrow and the ones that are meant to last a while.

I'm choosing to pursue the latter mostly because my aim is still to write a book or three that doesn't end up being

• a collection of random bits that sort of connect with each other
• or else one that morphs into a listicle-on-steroids
• or, worse, a scrapbook of old ads and persuasive, proselytizing calls-to-action (which are what most on-line blogs seem to be).
  

The little sparkly bits of magic that draw people in or jiu-jitsu the heck out of them are pretty much one-offs. You do them. They work or not. Repeat-rinse-repeat, on and on and on.

When you get a whole bunch of them together, they are a lot bulky but, often, are not much more than empty calories.

The other ones -- the bits meant to grow into master-works -- are harder to shape and produce, mostly because your choice of materials to use in their building is huge.

The bits you make then are supposed to interlink with each other and, after a while, the choices you make as you create them affect what comes after.

Quality versus quantity. The eternal creative dilemma.

Your answers to that paradox is always: It depends. Do you want product? Or are you aiming for soul?

Your answers are always going to be unique to you, if you do it right.

(The trick, of course, is figuring out how to keep body and soul together while you build your interlocking bits into some sort of tower or something. Think Lego building blocks or Lincoln Logs.)

Hope you're experiencing epiphanies and revelations and all that...if that's what you want...and are having fun as well.

I am. (Hee!)

See ya....