I Am a Bad Dreamer
5/11/10 07:52![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
madrobinsI have let this site lie fallow. I could, I suppose, mirror whatever I post on LJ over here (or post here and mirror to LJ, or...sheesh. I'm not sure what would be the advantage of either; I do know trying to write separate posts for both sites would almost certainly distract me from the Real stuff I'm supposed to be doing, like: writing.
Oh, that.
Meanwhile, I've been working to try to come up with websites, both for myself and for Sarah Tolerance. Most of the site-building software that bills itself as intuitive is, shall we say, NOT. If you want something more than a very basic site, but something less than Amazon.com, there are tools to develop it, but you have to learn them, and the learning curve is not shallow. And I can't help but feel that I should be doing the Real stuff: writing. I am deeply distractible when a book isn't cooperating, and the chance to spend six hours potching around in website-land is almost irresistible, and I can't believe that's good. (I'm in the middle of a free trial of Squarespace, about whose site-building software reviewers have been singing to the skies; if there was a simple "How Do I Do This?" manual rather than the video tutorials with a laconic guy zipping through fifteen steps while telling you how simple it is, I'd be better able to deal.) I dreamt of websites last night.
Anyway, they have a "Journal" option to add to your site. Which means I could then have three blogs, which is two too many. So should I keep a journal with my website and mirror to LJ and DW or bag something established in favor of the new journal or...
Maybe I should just go write my book.
Oh, that.
Meanwhile, I've been working to try to come up with websites, both for myself and for Sarah Tolerance. Most of the site-building software that bills itself as intuitive is, shall we say, NOT. If you want something more than a very basic site, but something less than Amazon.com, there are tools to develop it, but you have to learn them, and the learning curve is not shallow. And I can't help but feel that I should be doing the Real stuff: writing. I am deeply distractible when a book isn't cooperating, and the chance to spend six hours potching around in website-land is almost irresistible, and I can't believe that's good. (I'm in the middle of a free trial of Squarespace, about whose site-building software reviewers have been singing to the skies; if there was a simple "How Do I Do This?" manual rather than the video tutorials with a laconic guy zipping through fifteen steps while telling you how simple it is, I'd be better able to deal.) I dreamt of websites last night.
Anyway, they have a "Journal" option to add to your site. Which means I could then have three blogs, which is two too many. So should I keep a journal with my website and mirror to LJ and DW or bag something established in favor of the new journal or...
Maybe I should just go write my book.