Posts tagged with “blogging”
Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.
C. S. Lewis on How to Become a Better Writer
Quoted by Justin Taylor. Dave Bish’s post “Preaching training should include watching The West Wing” got me thinking about a (previously) subconscious reason I write this blog: I want to become a better communicator. A blog is a great place to work at better writing (though often entries can end up rushed). To this end, I’ve also bought “The Elements of Style” by Strunk and White, and am trying to edit blog entries before posting them.
Possibly relevant: Things I need to learn to do in relation to blogging, part one.
Writers’ block
Posted at 4:52 PM
I’m finding it hard to know what to write. This isn’t for lack of things to write about – on the contrary, my problem is I don’t know where to start. Those who have spent any amount of time with me probably know that I think quite deeply about lots of different things. My lack of blogging has, in a way, contributed to a build-up in things I want to think through – or rather, my lack of time to think things through has been the reason I haven’t been blogging. Or maybe both are true.
At the moment I’m trying to organise recording about four different ensembles, as well as writing a ten minute work for orchestra. I no longer have any official responsibilities in organising stuff for the CU, but am busier than ever. I’m still singing in a choir, doing solos and duets at concerts, cooking dinner for large groups of people, and trying to get along to the Aikido club (a Japanese martial art my housemates are involved with) but always seeming to have to schedule other things that clash with it. I’m also trying to find time to finish the audio mastering for the film I collaborated on a soundtrack for last term (which is proving difficult, as the director is in rehearsals for a play all evenings, and my fellow composer/sound-person has a day job!). I’m hoping to have some space to think soon, but whenever I have any free time it seems to get filled either by work (there’s lots of it) or time-wasting. So I’m just being my typical undisciplined self then. (Need to work on this.)
I feel I should end by enthusiastically raving about Flos Campi, a wonderful piece of music by Ralph Vaughan Williams that I recorded (as part of a longer concert) with Sara on Saturday. The problem is I don’t have any words to say about it, it was that good. When it had finished, I turned to Sara and for the first time in that concert was utterly speechless. (At least until we noticed the programme notes mentioned the “voice of the turtle” in relation to one of the movements…)
Things I need to learn to do better in relation to blogging, part one
Posted at 3:31 PM
Write more concisely.