Comments on: Excavating the internet http://solidgoldcreativity.com/2009/09/25/excavating-the-internet/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:58:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: solidgoldcreativity http://solidgoldcreativity.com/2009/09/25/excavating-the-internet/#comment-229 Sat, 26 Sep 2009 11:52:21 +0000 http://solidgoldcreativity.wordpress.com/?p=2126#comment-229 Great, I’ll check it out. Thanks.

]]> By: Christopher http://solidgoldcreativity.com/2009/09/25/excavating-the-internet/#comment-228 Sat, 26 Sep 2009 03:31:51 +0000 http://solidgoldcreativity.wordpress.com/?p=2126#comment-228 The more “popular” the blog, the more insipid it is. Or so I find.

I want to recommend, though, this blog http://electricalwell.wordpress.com/ It is (or was) an oasis of sparkle in a desert of pap (am I mixing metaphors here?).

The writer posted only a handful of pieces, then disappeared. How sad for the blogosphere……..oops……..internet.

]]> By: Solid gold creativity http://solidgoldcreativity.com/2009/09/25/excavating-the-internet/#comment-225 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:23:32 +0000 http://solidgoldcreativity.wordpress.com/?p=2126#comment-225 Yes, give the reader a reason, and just enough to do. Or else, like I aim to be able to do one day, give up altogether the whole seduction model of writing. Cheers.

]]> By: andreaskluth http://solidgoldcreativity.com/2009/09/25/excavating-the-internet/#comment-224 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:52:35 +0000 http://solidgoldcreativity.wordpress.com/?p=2126#comment-224 “…if you read this kind of stuff for more than 10 minutes, you’ll feel like you’re having your brain vacuumed out. It’s the flatness, the smoothness that’ll kill you….”

Amen. I’m glad I’m not the only one who feels like that.

The Holy Grail, therefore, is to draw the reader in, keep him for more than 10 minutes, and THEN given him a reason, and just enough to do, to pull him all the way through, however long that may be…

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