the reading and the writing.

Sorta hard to post here, considering how much 360’s struggling these days. Though I’m hopeful that the transition won’t be too much of a hassle when it comes. You think they’ll update all the old links?

Anyway – the novel writing is much easier if one doesn’t allow the pressure of thinking about others reading it to creep in. Secrecy is good. Not that i’d think many would read it, given how I’ve gotten feedback on posting messages that are too long here.

Ethany, our nanny’s daughter was over the other day. We were talking career moves for her and she was talking about how she could type real fast. I called her out on it, wanted to race. Found a free typing test online. I pounded out 91 words per minute. 0 errors. She put in 127 words per minute, 256 errors. I helped her figure out how to correct her errors and let her retry. 4 errors the second time (reading the same passage helped no doubt) (reading my extra excuses and how the errors/speed are reversed is a little foreshadowing here huh?) and only 121 words per minute.

She can type fast. I thought cause I’ve been typing longer than she’s been alive, I’d have a chance. She pointed out that while I was in high school, I wasn’t tuning my skills via IM. Fair enough.

Anyway, getting the words out isn’t tough – it’s the though of someone reading it that makes writing tough. The novel writing month thing is easier by not linking to it. Catherine hasn’t read my thesis – but it’s something I’ve prescribed to her for her insomnia. So there isn’t really any reason for me to think that someone would want to read it. But it tends to shape the writing process anyway.

I’ve found over the years with this blog, that I tend to appreciate the people that read it more. Everyone’s got a choice. But doesn’t it seem natural, that if someone refers to some arcane thing I’ve written, that they’ve stored it in memory and later let me know that somehow – that I’m going to tend to like that person a bit more? Not that I’d necessarily like them flat out; or do I dislike anyone for not reading; just that, I give out plus marks for reading this stuff. Buying beers or being funny are plus marks as well.

Catherine told me once that a co-worker of hers “announced” that she was quitting via her blog. Didn’t tell her boss. Didn’t really quit either – just said that they were looking cause they were fed up at work. And I was thinking, wouldn’t a good boss be in tune to these things, want to know what’s going on, to know the opinions of the people working with them?

Eh – people are busy I suppose.

And I don’t understand Facebook.

There is a huge divide that being 35 is illustrating to me. Sure, I’ve been typing longer than some people that type faster than me are alive. But also, Dan hasn’t SEEN the “Where’s the beef?” Wendy’s commercial, he’s only heard about it during presidential debates and had to look into the archives (youtube) to see what the reference was.

That’s strange. Stranger than “poking” people on Facebook I think. Though Dan would also disgree…