A Little Purge January 9, 2008
Posted by clydefro in : General Film , trackbackIt was going to be “The Big Purge” but I got cold feet. Recently, some complaints have come up over the quality of the writing here. Even if I can’t say that I necessarily respect the source of the snideness, it does hit on two things that have been on my mind.
Firstly, some of the older posts on here are not as thorough or, even, readable as what I feel like I’m capable of writing now. I’ve deleted those and hesitantly allowed some to remain when I’m happy with a sentence or two, despite not being content with the overall effort. It bugs me to have these older entries on here because I don’t think they’re good samples of my writing any longer, which still remains decidedly amateur but nonetheless improved. Many of these films I discussed were watched and written about well before I knew anyone else would read it and never with the intent of being held up to any standard except my own. Now, that standard has heightened so bye-bye to (some of) the crap.
This brings me to my other point - my current difficulty in devoting the time necessary to meet anyone’s standard of interesting writing. The DVD Times reviews take up a lot of my time, especially when there are literally hours and hours of material to watch for each one, so I’m left to play here only when there’s nothing else to write about there or if I’ve seen something that compelled me to jot down a few things outside of those other responsibilities. Either way, I think I’ll hold off posting something here unless I feel it’s of a certain quality so as to not give people the wrong idea. If there’s a hiatus or extreme lull between posts, that’ll be the reason.
I tend to hesitate littering up the site with my TCM picks when I haven’t posted anything of more substance so I’ll try to find a way around that and maybe set up a page for them. I don’t plan on doing selections in February because the schedule is full of things already on DVD in celebration of the Oscars. Otherwise, they’ll hopefully continue.
I also want to find a way to highlight my favorite things I’ve written so that they’ll be easier to find than rummaging through an index or going into the archives month-by-month. I have well over 100 posts here and I’m much happier with a few specific entries than others. All this should tidy things up a bit and hopefully I won’t have to defend or justify myself in the foreseeable future.
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