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Writing is hard. Well it is for me because I’m a poor writer. I don’t enjoy writing and what should take me a couple of hours takes me a week as I grit my teeth and beat away at my words to make them make sense. My posts tend to be too long and over explained, I repeat myself. They are a nightmare.
Unfortunately like most ill-informed people I have a lot to say, so motivation to write is actually quite high. I’m not even that worried that only a handful of people read my blog, the process of thinking about what I’m going to write is really useful and enjoyable for me. It helps me to clarify my thoughts and work through issues. It’s just the process of writing itself that does my head in.
I persevere anyway because I’ve found it so valuable, but now that I have a new baby there is an increasing danger of not writing at all because I no longer have the time to bash away at something all week in my spare time. The funny thing is when I started this blog I thought the writing would be easy and I worried about the decision to do a new drawing for each post. But the drawings are the easy part, the literally take about 15 minutes each. Less than that even because since the aforementioned baby arrived I’ve just been rehashing older drawings. They would be better if I had more time to spend on them of course. So I’ve been wracking my brain trying to think how I can say just as much, just as often but spend less time doing it.
Posted: June 14th 2010
If there’s one thing the internet is not short of it’s designers opinions. And I have no excuse for adding one more to the pile except that much like a drunken, vitriolic Youtube comment It’s out there now, I can’t take it back and we are all going to have to learn to live with it.
I should really finish first I suppose, but after fiddling with it for weeks, I realised that I’m never going to be happy with it so should just put it out and fix it up as I go along. So here it is, for you lucky few, think of it as the beta version. If you could contact me if you notice any problems browser wise (or just have some feedback on the design) that would be appreciated.
This is my first wrestle with Wordpress. The first 80% was suprisingly easy, the last 20% suprisingly hard, and there are a few technical issues I’m aware of. The user experience if you make a mistake submitting a comment (try it) is horrendous, as is the error handling in the comments form. The more links take you halfway down the page and the footer looks like the half baked afterthought it is although I suppose I can’t blame Wordpress for that. I’ll have to fix them up, but I’ve decided to post first, fix later. This is also my first grapple with Sifr, and although it is wonderful to be able to expand my choice of fonts it has a host of problems I didn’t anticipate (including no text resizing, unpredictable line-height behavior and odd rendering on screen resizing).
Posted: October 16th 2009
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