Pieces on Speculative Fiction

First week of writing pretty much behind me now. Experiences off the top of my head:

• Writing good quality posts is really hard. Writing good quality reviews is harder! Hats off to all of you who do it week in, week out.
• Reading other blogs takes huge chunks of time. That time would be better used writing posts. Most of the time when I intend to comment on a post, I end up thinking that I should write about it here and then I sort of forget about it.
• Commenting superficially on other people’s posts is deceptively easy and yet produces crappy posts.
• Thinking about good topics is easier than writing about them.
• 200 words is not enough for a good review.

My foremost goal was to write 3-5 posts per week. This is my ninth post, so not writing is the tougher than just spewing half-formed scribblings out. The content is not quite what I imagined to write, as I thought I would write couple of longer, more thoughtful posts.

Goals for the coming week

• Write some thoughts on the Changing of Guards -idea promoted at Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist and further discussed by Andrew Wheeler.
• Exploratory post on public domain speculative fiction. Project Gutenberg has a lot of very good free books available. Sadly I’ve read only few old pieces, but hopefully that will change.
• Additions to reviews: similar books, actual star graphics and other small details of the sort.
• Retro Review of Passion Play and most likely a review of a Mark Chadbourn book.

So three long posts and a few shorter coming up. Balancing my time between reading books, writing about books and reading about writing blogs is takes amazing amount of time.

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