Tomorrow is Christmas Eve, and then comes some overdue visiting with family till the New Year. There will be no more Commotion — here, anyway — till Tuesday, January 5th. Once returned, there will be some permanent changes.
There is that book I want to finish. But a book, at least a book of Finale!‘s sort, is basically a very long, well-informed essay, and that requires an entirely different type of writing than the conversational, bite-size, USA Today-style that prevails in blogdom.
A blogger tends to assume, I think, that his readers know “where he’s coming from,” that there is a sort of shared history which makes it unnecessary to fully develop the sweep of an idea or point of view. That’s fatal in other forms, though, and something I need to constantly stop to remind myself. Blogging makes the writing lazy, I’m saying.
So the book will have pride of place for a while, and Civil Commotion will get my attention when it gets it. What you do see here will be more newspaper column-like, less frequent but more thorough in the presentation of a single idea.
Have a nice Christmas, y’all.
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