Compulsion to Write

I've been trying to keep the ratio of posts about blogging to posts about everything else to a minimum, but resisting self-indulgence has never been my strong suit.

The first thing I've noticed is that I can't stop writing. Like everyone who's ever been involved in the film business, I am working on a screenplay. I did a first draft and put it down for, oh, about a year. Lately, I've picked it up again, and I've made good progress. They say the key to writing is to write - I'm writing that script again because of this blog.

The other thing I've noticed is how quickly ribble's has gotten a consistent tone. A little personal, a little sad, funny but not ha-ha funny. Basically, I've got a blog that sounds like me. Not the same as being a good blog, but a decent start.

Then there's this weird format. My cousin the revolutionary is in an internet media class taught him that linking is what defined blogs as a medium. What I didn't realize was to what degree blogging could indulge the instinct for references that I've always had.

I've written in a lot of different mediums — scripts, a good newspaper, a bad newspaper, papers for my high-pedigree school. Oh yeah. I've done it all. Blogs are the closest I've come to being able to write like I think.