Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Ava - Blog Editing

I don't know if anyone notices but I often go back and edit my blogs after I first publish them. If a blog has to do with something I view as "key" (for one reason or another) I will go back and edit it as many times as it takes for me to feel I have gotten things as right as I possibly can.

For instance, the "Understanding "The Open Sesames"" blog was very important to me and received the most editing so far.

I wonder if other bloggers do this? It may be, somehow, an anti-blogging thing to do. I don't participate in, nor do I understand, the whole "social networking thing" so I'm not sure how spontaneous blogging is "meant" to be.

I am simply treating "The Open Sesames" blog as a place to write (and this, of course, almost always related to "TOS" ) and I am approaching the entire process the way I would approach any writing intended for public consumption. By this I mean I am not content until I feel the end result is as refined and as truthful as I can possibly make it and I will work tirelessly to get it to this point.

Except (and this exception is interesting to me) if someone is a quick enough or a close enough reader, he/she can actually witness my editing process as I refine and refine and refine my feelings=thoughts=writing. This would never happen in the normal course of events where I write and edit privately and then submit the finished product for publication.

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