Hi! Hi! Sorry!<\/p>\n
I’m still here. Everything is fine. I’ve just been busy on this thing. And this other thing.<\/p>\n
Here’s the problem in a nutshell: I’m not one of those people who writes because he “needs to,” I’m one of the people who writes because, at the end of the day, he likes having written (in the much the same way that I would love to know how to play guitar, but am not particularly interested in learning how). So if, at 8 PM, I’ve already cranked out 1000 words on some non-dy piece or another, I’m pretty much done for the day. Sorry NetarWeb.<\/p>\n
The flip side is that, for five years or so, all my other<\/em> projects have been getting the shaft: I’d write on defective yeti and punt on everything else, having already hit my word count quota for the day.<\/p>\n My New Year’s Resolution for 2008 was to chip away at those projects that I have been putting off (crime stories, board game designs, etc.) This is the exact same resolution I made in 2007 and then more-or-less ignored for the subsequent 12 months. Last year I completed, like, one of my listed projects; right now I am wrapping up my third for 2008. Whether blog abstinence is contributing to my productivity or is a side-effect of it is anyone’s guess, but it would appear that I can only work on one project at a time, and defective yeti qualifies as a project.<\/p>\n Sarah Hepola wrote eloquently (as usual) about this phenomenon in her Slate<\/em> essay Why I Shut Down My Blog<\/a>. Which isn’t in any way to compare my ability to write to that of Sarah Hepola, only my ability to quit.<\/p>\n There have been some other factors keeping my out of the blogosphere as well. For one thing, the project I am currently working is about<\/em> blogs, a upshot of which is that I am thoroughly sick of them. Except for yours, I mean. I still check yours twice daily.<\/p>\n (For the record, I am not being coy about the exact nature of this project because you’ll hear about it soon and I need to keep it under wraps, but because the chances of it going anywhere are fat and slim. That said, remember this post when you start seeing ads for “Bla-La-Logs! The Musical!!” I’ve said too much already.)<\/p>\n Also, about two months ago, The Queen read the first 700 pages of The Stand<\/em> and promptly came down with the superflu, so I had to spend a week spoon-feeding her chicken soup. That signaled the start of my hiatus. I had only intended to take a few days off, but then banded together with a motley crew of exhaustively described characters to walk to Las Vegas and confront the Walkin’ Dude. So the whole thing took a bit longer than anticipated.<\/p>\n ANY<\/em>way, my head is suffused with the observational detritus I have accumulated over weeks of not writing here, so I’ll be back for this week at least. After that, we’ll see how it goes. Cheers!<\/p>\n P.S. Thanks to everyone who who<\/a> kept<\/a> the<\/a> home<\/a> fires<\/a> burning<\/a>. It is comforting to know that, should I ever fall into a well, a crack team of blogonauts is standing by, ready to mock my absence.<\/span><\/p>\n P.S.S. My god, is there anything as intrinsically bloggy as a long and tedious post explaining why you haven’t been blogging? Someone should start a blog that consists solely of daily, long-winded, and humorous entries purporting to explain why it hasn’t been updated. Free idea. Yours for the taking.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hi! Hi! Sorry! I’m still here. Everything is fine. I’ve just been busy on this thing. And this other thing. Here’s the problem in a nutshell: I’m not one of those people who writes because he “needs to,” I’m one of the people who writes because, at the end of the day, he likes having […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}