On the other hand, I also have a strong general bias against over-revision for most writing; I think it’s awfully easy to suck the life out of your own writing by attempting to refine it too much. Maybe that’s one reason the biblioblogosphere turns out to be reasonably fascinating: I think most writers do let their voices shine through more than in formal writing.

I do get tired of the blogging-as-a-profesional posts/ blogging-qua-writing posts. I like the off-the-cuff nature of WAR. I thought blogging was supposed to provide a really quick way of publishing, not so much a broadcast megaphone. I use blogging to sort and sift my ideas. I read blogs for different reasons. Some I read to keep current; some for amusement; some for nice crunchy ideas to mull over.

Taking blogging soooo seriously as it seems many do (I name no names) just doesn’t work for me. If someone is more comfortable composing in Word, fine. But let’s not hold up the work! I do not hold any blogger to any huge standards, other than do not lie to me. If I get miffed at a blog, I generally don’t go back there–voting with my eyes. I try to keep the bonehead errors to a minimum on my blog, but I decided long ago that I only have so much time on this planet. Speaking of which, housework calls. I am not a perfectionist there either. Fortunately, there are few critics here.

Keep going with the real-time stuff, please.

So Walt Crawford did a post the other day about how he composes his blog posts, titled The joys of real-time wordsmithing. I have been meaning to do something along those lines to talk about the tools I use, so…