Spring Cleaning

I do a pretty fair amount of writing. Most of what I write appears here on the blog.

I also start a lot of posts that either:

• become outdated before I finish them
• lose my interest
• I just forget about in the crush of events

I looked through my "drafts" list last night; over 200 posts since I switched the site to Movable Type last April. To keep the numbers in some perspective, I've actually posted about 1,300 articles since then. You'd think my squib rate would be higher, wouldn't you?

Anyway, some of the posts were very time-sensitive, especially those dealing with the campaign. I probably deleted 75-85 of them.

Some were too cryptic to do anything with; online notes like "Cockroach Thugs" and a link to an article that doesnt' exist anymore. I whacked probably 50 of them.

Some were just krep. I diced probably 30-40 of those.

And after all that, there were a few that remained - pieces that still meant something, were not completely outdated, and re-sparked a germ of one idea or another in my mind. I'm going to be recycling some of those in the next few weeks, under the heading "Spring Cleaning".

I'll keep running them until I get bored or distracted. Could be six weeks, could be later today. We'll see.

Posted by Mitch at January 7, 2005 05:05 AM | TrackBack