IT'S. SIX. A.M.
Feb. 25th, 2004 06:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jsnlvThose who know me well know the only possible way I could be up this early is that I stayed up all night, which would be absolutely correct. If I were sensible, I'd have spent that time cleaning or writing or working out or something. As it was, I read about six months' entries from this man's journal, partly because it passed the time and partly because I am thinking about my Next Big Thing.
I have a website all about detailing my various Next Big Things, titled "Work In Progress." Fittingly, it's still under construction, so I'm just going to talk about my Next Big Thing right here. It's actually more appropriate that way, since This Particular Big Thing is (hopefully) going to play out on these very LiveJournal pages.
I have alluded to it before. I call it "People of Influence."
In the time I've spent on the Internet, I've come across a lot of influential people. Other times, less informed by the good word of Cat and Girl, I'd have called these people Heroes or Geniuses, (and actually I probably have in the past) but I'd have been unable to tell you what made them so heroic or what their genius was. People like![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
theferrett and 108 are awesome for reasons, however, and I'd like to try honing my weak and under-developed critical thinking skills by explaining why they're awesome and by using an example of their influence in the process of describing how they've influenced me.
Take108, for example. I don't want to completely eclipse the (the what? The essay? The article? Let's just call it a "piece.") piece by going into all the details of why I'm so impressed by him, but one of the main points is his approach to writing videogame reviews or features or, for that matter, just about any of his articles on his website. The thing he does is he always includes a huge dose of the personal with whatever it is he's reviewing, so it becomes not so much a critique of the game itself as a critique of the experience of playing the game. Maybe it's fictitious, or maybe it distracts, or maybe you can come up with another reason why that's not such a good thing, but at the very least, it's memorable. I like the idea of reviews that exist not just to reaffirm the reader's membership in the videogame community.
The whole point of writing this, actually, was to document one of the main differences between his writing and mine (I mean, besides the years of experience and polish and profanity and the rest): he can write and write and write the most senseless random blather, but he can get away with it because he refuses to apologize for it. Sure, it wins him no friends amongst the literary Lawful Neutral, but he does it anyway.
I like that, even as he tries to distance himself from it. I'll take his mantra and reverse it: the Internet IS my personal writing exercise. Or at least, it SHOULD be; I've been ignoring my lessons until now.
I have a website all about detailing my various Next Big Things, titled "Work In Progress." Fittingly, it's still under construction, so I'm just going to talk about my Next Big Thing right here. It's actually more appropriate that way, since This Particular Big Thing is (hopefully) going to play out on these very LiveJournal pages.
I have alluded to it before. I call it "People of Influence."
In the time I've spent on the Internet, I've come across a lot of influential people. Other times, less informed by the good word of Cat and Girl, I'd have called these people Heroes or Geniuses, (and actually I probably have in the past) but I'd have been unable to tell you what made them so heroic or what their genius was. People like
theferrett and 108 are awesome for reasons, however, and I'd like to try honing my weak and under-developed critical thinking skills by explaining why they're awesome and by using an example of their influence in the process of describing how they've influenced me.Take
108, for example. I don't want to completely eclipse the (the what? The essay? The article? Let's just call it a "piece.") piece by going into all the details of why I'm so impressed by him, but one of the main points is his approach to writing videogame reviews or features or, for that matter, just about any of his articles on his website. The thing he does is he always includes a huge dose of the personal with whatever it is he's reviewing, so it becomes not so much a critique of the game itself as a critique of the experience of playing the game. Maybe it's fictitious, or maybe it distracts, or maybe you can come up with another reason why that's not such a good thing, but at the very least, it's memorable. I like the idea of reviews that exist not just to reaffirm the reader's membership in the videogame community.The whole point of writing this, actually, was to document one of the main differences between his writing and mine (I mean, besides the years of experience and polish and profanity and the rest): he can write and write and write the most senseless random blather, but he can get away with it because he refuses to apologize for it. Sure, it wins him no friends amongst the literary Lawful Neutral, but he does it anyway.
I like that, even as he tries to distance himself from it. I'll take his mantra and reverse it: the Internet IS my personal writing exercise. Or at least, it SHOULD be; I've been ignoring my lessons until now.
