Just opened up WordPress and went in to search for an old post I’d written and discovered nine posts in Draft, half-written and just waiting for me to come back and finish them. They’re all being deleted, though, since they were meant to be timely and that time has now passed.
It’s oddly hard for me to do something like that, delete unwritten posts. I feel like I’m abandoning them and resigning myself to the idea that I won’t be able to complete those loops in my head. That’s tough, tougher than it should be, not because I’m so narcissistic that I feel I’m denying the world the insights that come from me. I know that’s not the case. But it’s because, quite literally, writing about something is how I think about things.
Take the announcement that David Letterman was retiring, the topic of one of the posts that’s being deleted before it was posted. When I was thinking about that after I heard the news it was in the form of my writing about it. I think, in other words, in blog posts or long (or short) write-ups. And many times I’m not sure what I want to say about some topic until I start to sit down and write about it.
That’s all a long, pretentious way to say there’s a bunch of stuff that I deleted before publishing and to mention that yeah, I’m behind on stuff. And that it’s not easy for me to abandon these posts, which will now never see the light of day. But such is life.
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