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I hear from reliable sources (to wit, some guys on the internet) that blogging is dead. Once the sort of thing every gran with a knitting fixation did (judging by Janet’s favorites list), it’s now being taken over by social media like Facebook. And I get that, I really do. Looking at this blog, which I’m told I ought to be keeping up for professional reasons (see earlier “reliable sources), I haven’t posted a blessed thing since Leviathans came out. I’ve done a bunch of stuff since then, both writing w
So what’s the deal? Two fold, I think. Social media feels a lot more like a conversation to me, whereas this blog is more of a stage. I’m sitting here tapping the microphone nervously whilst the imagined eyes of thousands (well, four or five, but tell that to my subconcious) are upon me, waiting for me to say something vaguely interesting. To wit, performance anxiety.