Comments on: Post-hoarding, hazard of the blog trade https://thenewneo.com/2018/04/02/post-hoarding-hazard-of-the-blog-trade/ A blog about political change, among other things Fri, 06 Sep 2019 18:02:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 By: neo-neocon https://thenewneo.com/2018/04/02/post-hoarding-hazard-of-the-blog-trade/#comment-2380086 Wed, 04 Apr 2018 04:21:28 +0000 http://www.neoneocon.com/?p=76737#comment-2380086 parker:

Why on earth would I do that?

The point about some of those posts is that they mean a lot to me. They represent untold hours of work, as well. I wouldn’t throw them out even if I never published them. But certainly, it would make a lot more sense to publish them than to throw them out. So I have no idea why you’d suggest I throw them out rather than publish them.

Slowly but surely, I usually end up publishing them. Throwing them out would create about a year of extra work for me. Makes no sense at all.

]]> By: parker https://thenewneo.com/2018/04/02/post-hoarding-hazard-of-the-blog-trade/#comment-2380080 Wed, 04 Apr 2018 04:14:26 +0000 http://www.neoneocon.com/?p=76737#comment-2380080 Simple solution, though I know you will not take it….

Delete anything older than 100 days.

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2018/04/02/post-hoarding-hazard-of-the-blog-trade/#comment-2379945 Tue, 03 Apr 2018 23:50:12 +0000 http://www.neoneocon.com/?p=76737#comment-2379945 If you don’t like F’s suggestion to get an editor, how about posting a couple of the not-quite-done ones in a special category and use us as your critique club collaborators?
That’s how a lot of fiction authors operate.

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2018/04/02/post-hoarding-hazard-of-the-blog-trade/#comment-2379943 Tue, 03 Apr 2018 23:48:27 +0000 http://www.neoneocon.com/?p=76737#comment-2379943 Susanamantha Says:
April 2nd, 2018 at 6:39 pm
I have a similar problem only it’s with reading as opposed to writing. I hear of a book that seems interesting and I get it, one way or the other (library, used, new, Kindle, etc.)
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Hi.
My name is AesopFan, and I hoard books.
(first of the 12 steps, IIRC).

However, I never mastered the art of multiple parallel reading except that I can keep 1 fiction and 1 nonfiction going at the same time.
OCD compels me to finish one before starting another.
And pretend you don’t see all the unwatched videos in the other corner of the room….

]]> By: brdavis9 https://thenewneo.com/2018/04/02/post-hoarding-hazard-of-the-blog-trade/#comment-2379924 Tue, 03 Apr 2018 19:09:17 +0000 http://www.neoneocon.com/?p=76737#comment-2379924 …I’d read the Fantasia/Goethe one.

…just being supportive.

🙂

]]> By: steve walsh https://thenewneo.com/2018/04/02/post-hoarding-hazard-of-the-blog-trade/#comment-2379866 Tue, 03 Apr 2018 11:16:42 +0000 http://www.neoneocon.com/?p=76737#comment-2379866 Digital storage is inexpensive and plentiful such that there is no significant cost nor technological reason to clean up your blog post closet. Keep them all, or don’t, whichever settles your mind.

]]> By: The Other Chuck https://thenewneo.com/2018/04/02/post-hoarding-hazard-of-the-blog-trade/#comment-2379856 Tue, 03 Apr 2018 09:47:43 +0000 http://www.neoneocon.com/?p=76737#comment-2379856 As you winnow out those old drafts I hope you don’t discard the ones that may deal with art, music, dance, theater, poetry, and literature. It’s not that politics isn’t important, but no matter how much research and insight you put into those articles, there is always going to be disagreement. They often become flash points that generate ugly remarks, and to what end?

You may have mentioned it, but if not there is a small theme running through many of your posts that could be named transitioning. Maybe it is an offshoot of your own personal experience in politics. That theme, whether resulting in positive or negative outcomes, could be the idea for a book. Just a thought.

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2018/04/02/post-hoarding-hazard-of-the-blog-trade/#comment-2379839 Tue, 03 Apr 2018 08:25:04 +0000 http://www.neoneocon.com/?p=76737#comment-2379839 I’d just say, “Hoard away”.

We love ya, anyway (and besides most of us have pretty short memories, which could use refreshing once in a while by blog post gems)….

]]> By: F https://thenewneo.com/2018/04/02/post-hoarding-hazard-of-the-blog-trade/#comment-2379815 Tue, 03 Apr 2018 04:11:04 +0000 http://www.neoneocon.com/?p=76737#comment-2379815 No, no, no — don’t get a GOOD editor. Get one that’s cheap, and if you don’t like the final product you can blame the cheap editor!

]]> By: neo-neocon https://thenewneo.com/2018/04/02/post-hoarding-hazard-of-the-blog-trade/#comment-2379794 Tue, 03 Apr 2018 02:12:01 +0000 http://www.neoneocon.com/?p=76737#comment-2379794 Kae Arby:

Oh, I fully and freely admit I have a problem: I am a blog post hoarder.

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