Sometimes, I start the post here, get sidetracked by needing to check on a fact or find the right word or spelling and forget to get back here to finish and then publish a post. In fact, once more I have more posts started then posted. Fortunately, the Blogger software lets me do that.
Yes, blogging is no different then the rest of my life. I start so much more then I finish.
Sometimes, I stop by choice. I am more comfortable now casting aside books that don't deserve to be finished by me.
Take The Blind Side, for instance. I stopped reading it because the story kept getting lost in the details of football. Had I noticed the rest of the title: "Evolution of a Game" I might have never started reading this story of a boy who grew up without a bed and helped change the game of football. It was the boy's story I wanted, not the explanation of football evolution. That's the story the movie focused on. I finished the movie.
Casting aside books is fairly new for me as I had been trying to give the author the benefit of doubt. I pushed past my uncomfortable level, hoping, no believing, the words would become more valuable as I got deeper into the book.
Remember, this is the woman who drove librarians in Livonia nuts begging to be allowed to check out more then 5 books at a time, asking repeatedly to be allowed access to the adult section. My first oral reports were to those librarians who asked questions to make sure I was reading the books, not using them as props.
Oh, how I remember the feeling of accomplishment as I worked my way through the fiction shelves: All the authors whose last name began with an A, with a B, with a C, and so on and so on and so on.
Now, though, I realize that was just one of the first unfinished projects as a job in a bookstore (dream job, of course) and other priorities took over.
Now, though, the potatoes are done so I need to answer the call of the boil. I'm calling this post done as well.
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Oh, I can so relate to the post thing.
ReplyDeleteHow wonderful to hear from you. You seem to be doing a better of publishing then me right now. Started two posts today and realized I didn't finish either.
ReplyDeleteI've taken to using the "post in the future" piece of Typepad to let me make sure that incomplete posts eventually do get out there. Rather than sitting in draft state, I put them in "post a week from today". That lets me go back a few days later and edit, and it means there's a deadline to get things done.
ReplyDeleteIt's always OK to post an incomplete image on a blog; you don't have to have something as tidy and completely wrapped together as you would in some other writing worlds.