hello all
been sporadic with the rootsblog lately
and am always it seems pondering how
to use it most effectively
of course my greatest fear is still
that i sing to a choir of one - myself
but since im clearly determined to sing
the question remains of what shall i sing
and how shall i do it
im thinking lately that im going to do shorts online
short stories (because as always i assume the public commitment
to do so will drive me to actually do so)
and im feeling behind on my shorts production
since ima be trying to do these online ima try to hit
it real tight, micro flash
right now probably be stuff extracted from rest for the weary
cause even now i just cant imagine taking time out of my novel pursuit
to write short stories, so right now all these 'shorts' will be excerpted
and finessed from rest
or stuff designed to be of benefit to rest
another point im noticing is that most of my readership
comes not from return folk, which is what i crave
but from folk who come through search engines
often from the most preposterous permutations
anybody searching for some fundamentalist church group
having something to do with the phrase 'higher ground'
will get rootsblog
its been real interesting seeing what search engines send my way
but now what im thinking is forget my obsession with pleasing the public
and get traffic to my rootsblog
im going to concentrate on getting my body of work online
the industry and the literary world treat me funny and i dont get no play
as a contemporary literary force and that irks me
but im seeing something happening with this net and using the net as a literary instrument
that i think im one of the few literary players trying to play this net 21st century style
ideological orchestration and literary game
also considering adopting, as part of doing shorts as online hoodoo storyteller, adopting more of an overt hoodoo voice, rickydoc the rootdoctor riffing in a straight up hoodoo mode and playing hoodoo trickster games with the text, im not quite sure what im saying here but something about adopting a more overt hoodoo worker voice, which doesnt make it any clearer does it, i guess if its not clear to me i cant make it clear to you
but i feel something of his sort coming on
im a little leery of trying stuff too out there on rootsblog
but then again its my nature (and my training) as a literary man to
leap off the cliff and trust my literary instinct
that it was the thing to do
so i think im going to concentrate less on up to date commentary and more
for awhile on getting a representative body of work online
this gets back to projects:
rickydocs online manual of hoodooism
the hoodoo book of flowers
and now a book of shorts i will call the hoodoo tales
part of the problem i got with working shorts online is that you gon see me sweat
i got to put up with questionable work online for everybody to see and think i dont
know what im doing as a writer
but eventually i will get to point where i can knock
off these hoodoo shorts one or two a week and that ability will grow over the years
until i am delivering fine hoodoo storyworks as an automatic thing
and i think that i will put mojo rising on line too
ive got a lot of it on rootwork but for some reason
rootsblog gets the play
i guess cause of the up to date commentary
which actually kind of messes with this whole idea doesnt it
i guess i got to try to do both, its the up to date commentary that
gives rootsblog its life
okay im feeling like i should just abandon this post (and weblog too)
everything i think to do with this thing leads to more time expenditure
the one thing of which i have none to spare
none, not one hour not one minute not one second
suffice it to say ima do whatever i said i was gon do in this post
i dont know when i will have the time to do so but its gon get done
i am so sick of this weblog
i would really like to abandon this thing but once you put a true move in play
you dont never quit, thats not allowed, you play it till you die
im outta here
arf
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