This is one of the problems of blogging setup that encompasses both categories and links, and the way we stick posts and people under their headings in an attempt to make order out of chaos. I’m having the same problem in both areas today.
Under my LITERATURE & WRITING Category, I have long ago listed The Word Foundry, which is Joe Clifford Faust’s weblog and related site. Almost from the beginning of my Spinning, I figured since he is such a great writer and has been published many times, as well as had some very valuable information on his writing link this was where he rightfully belonged. However, his weblog is always updated regularly and he could just as well be under my VERRRY INTERESTING Category. Same thing with Michele’s Daily Writing Exercise . The Great Lettuce Head, Jerz’s Literacy Log among others. The reverse is also true–some that are under one category can easily fall under WRITING as well. But I’ll have to keep things status quo for now, and hope and encourage everyone to go through all the links and decide for themselves which are more resource and which are more daily reads.
From The Writing Foundry, this current posting of Joe’s on Hack and Slash is a personal account that gives insight into the writing life as well: “Okay, it turns out that this “just a quick read through” thing is not working out. I did okay through the first chapter, which is pretty polished, but as I got into the second I unconsciously slipped into editor mode and began hacking.” Read the rest of it and more on Joe’s website.
The second area that is causing me to rethink things today is the manner in which I have categorized my postings. Here there may be some changes, but they most likely will be entered as additions and I’ll start from there. For example, with The Didascalicon of Hugh of Saint Victor, while I will be analyzing the reading and my reactions to it briefly here, I don’t see it fitting in with the other items in Literature, and the category of Classics, or Philosophy of Literature may be added.
I guess editing and tweaking out is just a writer’s lot in life. And I guess we learn something about labels as well.
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thats is why i just got rid of categories altogether awhile back…nothing fit perfectly! (nothing ever does, right?) i have been contemplating going back to a few categories…it is tempting, but then i know frustration will set in. i am always changing my blog headings on the sidebars for the links too…the tweaking is neverending! i write about it on my blog too…that is what keeps me sane about it all…bouncing it off others.