Doing that run of posts, especially after a bit of a drought this week, has given me one of my silly ideas: 24 Hour Blogging, riffing off Scott McCloud’s 24 Hour Comic exercise, in which a cartoonist creates a full comic from scratch in one day the idea is simply to write 24 posts over 24 hours.
However, these posts must be original writing of a standard equivalent to that which the blogger is usually known, so no cut-n-paste, no linkloggery, no memes and no stream of consciousness. It has to be good. No planning is allowed and no storing of ideas in the preceding days. Just get up in the morning and write until you drop. I reckon a 1000 word minimum per post would be a good benchmark.
It’s not meant to be an inclusive thing – more an exercise for people like me who’ve been known to spend 6 hours crafting a post which garners 1 comment (usually followed by an off the cuff blurting about tea which everyone loves…). The idea is to loosen up, get rid of the preciousness and improve.
Of course I would come up with this idea when I’m in the middle of some steady employment…
You must be mad.
Marv – lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, (repeat to fade)
Is the comic idea related to the album-a-day deal?
Presumably the big danger with the blogging version is that it will become self-reflexive incredibly quickly. I know one of the rules of the album version is that you aren’t allowed to have anything prepared in advance, if you follow the same rule with the blogging then presumably the only things you’ll have to write about are 1) stuff you find on the internet and 2) the fact that you’re really fucking bored of sitting in a chair writing your blog.
Then again, if you’re not allowed to have ideas before you start, then I guess you aren’t technically even allowed to reply to these comments as it may constitute brainstorming.
I’ve tried ‘liveblogging’ – basically note as you go and hit a computer whenever you can during the day.
http://jinja.apsara.org/blog/2006/02/liveblogging.htm
I should have tagged you after I gave it a go.
A few of my friends have tried it.
http://jinja.apsara.org/blog/2006/03/caught-can-i-get-witness.htm