Make a few home runs and a few silly outs and I’m pretty sure that the bleachers will remain full.
.-= Dave Thurston´s last blog ..Red&Gray – A Getaway =-.

@ Giulietta – Cool that you do all your blog posts live — that really takes advantage of the medium! A mix of big picture and small picture seems to do the trick .

@ Franis – Wow, I love how you’ve framed this. What you wrote about completeness really rings true — it makes me uneasy to see blog posts that use a tone that implies it’s “the final word” … and I try to avoid that in my own writing.

@ Annelies – Thanks for visiting. It does seem true that small pictures allow us to delve deeply, as the big picture can seem so overwhelming. I like your imagery of fractals…

Great question Zoe.

I’d say.. the answers are generally within the smaller picture. A smaller system often has similar working components that resemble those which also function within larger systems, like a fractal or the way ants look like people if you were to see NYC from a 20 foot building. Thus, small pictures are found within larger frames.
And simple answers are found within larger questions.

~creative blessings…annelies
http://www.conduitforchange.com

You’ll see from my blog, that when I do write a “complete” post, it’s a bit of a show-stopper. It’s as though I’ve said it all…there is no need to respond. A short post allows further contributions and responses – so for a blog that is much better.

In fact, I have some “virtual questions” that I keep tucked into my back pocket that have become a source of meaning even though they will never be completely answered. Such as, “How do I find and make meaning for myself?”

Being able to describe and articulate your random impressions as you are having them is a fantastic contribution. Then it allows readers to take the raw material you’ve provided and put it together in any sort of arrangement we prefer. Revealing the process of how you do this yourself is also interesting. It’s when we talk about what we know best – our own story – that we become the most interesting. The personal becomes the universal as it is revealed. The skill of selecting what to reveal and how you reveal it – that is the art.

Your post says everything it needs to say. Medium picture is the way to go!

I always write brief posts. Who says they have to be long? Many blog posts on-line are so long, I start to lose interest in the middle and skip to the bottom.

Good writing is good writing. Blog posts engage me if they have one underlying theme.

I write all my posts live. I open my heart to what’s going on around me and write from that place. My writing flows like a river.

Staying open is the key. If you’re closed down, the words cannot find a way out of you.

Muse thx,

Giulietta the Muse

While most would argue that a blog post should be planned from beginning to end (at least the main points to be made) before being put to paper, I often find myself throwing down a thought, then connecting it to another, and another, and then finally in the uncertainty of anything, build something wholly unexpected. And then, almost recklessly and against what I’ve been told, I hit publish.

Granted, I think the approach tends more to my own learning than that of my readers, but is nonetheless liberating.