My writing quota has shot up lately, and I find it very rewarding.
After a little shuffle around at work, I’m now producing most of the content for our web site, so the stories you can see running up the right-hand margin of this blog, which are scraped directly from the MacUser news feed, will almost all be written by me.
I’m enjoying the speed of web publishing, which in my role has always been quite secondary to print, but now that we’re running things as a brand, with the printed mag and the online site working hand-in-hand, and overseen by the same team, things have turned about, and they are suddenly on an equal footing as far as my workload goes.
But beyond that, I’m also blogging and noveling more than I have been lately.
I’ve revisited the travelogue, and it’s progressing rather nicely – if a little slowly – with a bit more being tidied up or written from scratch on the train every morning or evening. I’m concentrating on Bulgaria at the moment, as it is one of the most recent sections completed, and so one of the clearest in my mind, and getting a lot out of snipping off raggedy paragraph ends, twisting sentences into more attractive rhythms, and reorganising my thoughts.
And Blagger, my green and low-cost living blog, has been up and running for almost a month, and it’s getting some decent hits. In the last three weeks it’s scored almost 2,500 visits, and the daily count seems to be growing by the day. That’s a very different kind of web publishing to what we’re doing at work, of course, as I’m aiming for a single post a day to build up a steady feed, rather than minute-by-minute coverage. To that end, I have a few entries stacked up for the next few days, ready to go live each morning just before half eight.
The idea is that I’ll use it to chronicle my efforts with growing fruit and veg and getting into the swing of home-producing a lot of my food once I’ve moved, so it will change over time, but right now it’s pootling along with general green issues, and I’m quite happy with that.
So at the moment I’m spending a lot of time with my fingers on a keyboard, and it’s been immensely rewarding. Perhaps the only thing that’s being given less of my written words is this personal blog.
Suffice it to say, though, that no news is good news, and really that’s all that matters.
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Excellent and encouraging work you do!
1. I was wondering about this: “After a little shuffle around at work, I’m now producing most of the content for our web site, so the stories you can see running up the right-hand margin of this blog, which are scraped directly from the MacUser news feed…” – I don’t see this list of stories ???
2. Did you write an essay on Scrivener recently in MacUser (not a review) ??? I missed the magazine it was in, and I can’t find it on the MU website. Any chance you could send at least summarize it?
Laurence of Los Angeles