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charlesthepig
charlesthepig • 69 followers

I worry about writing short stuff. I worry that, by not writing many short Opusses, I am alienating some users who do not want to read longer texts.
Should I strike more of a balance? It'd be easy enough to write just one-liners but these need to be balanced with longer texts as, as far as I am aware, letters make a word, words make a phrase, phrases make a sentence, sentences make a paragraph, paragraphs make a text, and texts make an author.
Short posts can prove your wit (as long as the wit is your own) and get attention but the longer stuff is important as well. Unless you can churn out one-liners at an impressive rate (all bow down to the genius of Tim Vine).
But I can't and so I worry, as plagiarism is not my cup of tea.

So...

I shall conduct an experiment and see where it gets me.

#creative-process #general #meta-writing #self-reflection #writing-anxiety
charlesthepig

@charlesthepig

Writing first novel, 'A Dead Pig Called Charles', and occasional musician, ranty blogger and tweeter (@charlesthepig). www.charlesthepig.com

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Comments & Feedback (5)

curiouscraig
curiouscraig
Apr 14, 2012 at 7:50 PM

Other people are having similar thoughts, myself included.

TheCodsPollocks
TheCodsPollocks
Apr 14, 2012 at 9:12 PM

Just do your own thing - don't worry about who you might alienate. You can't please all of the people all of the time

puffy1980
puffy1980
Apr 14, 2012 at 9:57 PM

To be perfectly honest, I'm starting to get sick of the endless meaningless quotes, and recycled jokes on here. I don't think that's what the developers meant this app to become. I'm not on here to amass followers, or to improve my "rank" as I don't know how to do that anyway. I'm here to write down my thoughts and ideas, and if I get some feedback, or someone bounces ideas off me, it's an added bonus.....rant over...for now...

charlesthepig
charlesthepig
Apr 14, 2012 at 10:00 PM

Well said @puffy1980

puffy1980
puffy1980
Apr 14, 2012 at 10:03 PM

@charlesthepig thanks. Don't mean to rant, but most of the popular Opuss's are for want of a better word...shit...just copied and pasted from Firefox. At least when someone likes one of mine, I can take pride in it, as it is actually my own work

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