tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17341858.post116645797908739296..comments2023-09-12T07:32:56.474-06:00Comments on A Bucket of Love: something in the water?aggiebretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07895747782121932958noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17341858.post-1167403878237809972006-12-29T08:51:00.000-06:002006-12-29T08:51:00.000-06:00E=MC2E=MC2Grubberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10435524784373114313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17341858.post-1167077584218612622006-12-25T14:13:00.000-06:002006-12-25T14:13:00.000-06:00Can you hear me from on high? The atmosphere doesn...Can you hear me from on high? The atmosphere doesn't carry sound that far up you say?<BR/><BR/>When you have a glut of blogs, it becomes easy to devolve into the glurge of topics that seem to travel around.<BR/><BR/>I think some good posts on story structure and character development and writing processes would be keen.<BR/><BR/>Hell, I might even do a few myself. I just want to be sure I can spout more than the latest trick some newbie has learned from McKee.Thomas Crymeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05444697706815844019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17341858.post-1166744798256033702006-12-21T17:46:00.000-06:002006-12-21T17:46:00.000-06:00Whining that blogs are bad takes on a different me...Whining that blogs are bad takes on a different meaning when it's a print rag doing the whining. Methinks the WSJ yearns for those days of yore when they had greater relevance due to less competition (or perhaps merely congestion) in the court of public attention.<BR/><BR/>And my point was not specific to just blogs, but most all online content (even that from the august erudite snobs at the WSJ). Increasingly it seems as though there is greater content in terms of mass but less in terms of weight and significance.<BR/><BR/>I think there is an unfortunate sort of life-arc to any such information system: there is the thrilling incendiary early stage when all things seem possible and the few important movers and shakers stand in stark relief as they are bright lights in an empty room.<BR/><BR/>Then comes the expansion when news gets out that Something Interesting is going on, and suddenly there's tremendous growth and the hipness starts to carry weight once borne by relevance.<BR/><BR/>Then comes that sad tipping point when enough of the slack-jawed dullards arrive to make the place no longer worth half a damn. When debate is finally forever replaced by pompous proselytizing and propgandizing, by mouth-breathers moaning small thoughts and small ideas, by fearful idiots more eager to shout down any unfamiliar idea than they are to consider the terrifying notion that perhaps they do not know everything.<BR/><BR/>Sound familiar? Seems like we've sailed past this same shoal before, kemosabe.<BR/>.<BR/>.<BR/>.<BR/>Baggiebretthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07895747782121932958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17341858.post-1166578386720868472006-12-19T19:33:00.000-06:002006-12-19T19:33:00.000-06:00I'm sorry, man. I'll try to do better. I promise. ...I'm sorry, man. I'll try to do better. I promise. I can do it. I know I can. Don't give up on me, Brett. Don't give up on me!Ryan Rasmussenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14156634290115527701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17341858.post-1166488494314355612006-12-18T18:34:00.000-06:002006-12-18T18:34:00.000-06:00I'm just tired.I'm just tired.Scott the Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14560177524646531880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17341858.post-1166482531095010722006-12-18T16:55:00.000-06:002006-12-18T16:55:00.000-06:00I think a better winner would have been "EVERYONE ...I think a better winner would have been "EVERYONE EXCEPT YOU"<BR/><BR/>That's a cover worth framing.<BR/>.<BR/>.<BR/>.<BR/>Baggiebretthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07895747782121932958noreply@blogger.com