{"id":4165,"date":"2024-02-21T05:00:16","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T05:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/?p=4165"},"modified":"2024-02-21T05:00:16","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T05:00:16","slug":"cory-doctorow-explaining-his-blogging-method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/cory-doctorow-explaining-his-blogging-method\/","title":{"rendered":"Cory Doctorow explaining his blogging method"},"content":{"rendered":"

*It’s a lot of work.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/pluralistic.net\/2024\/02\/20\/fore\/#synthesis<\/a><\/p>\n

(…)<\/p>\n

Blogging has always been a part of this project. For nearly 20 years, I posted nearly every day on Boing Boing \u2013 53,906 posts in all! \u2013 taking note of everything that seemed important. Keeping a “writer’s notebook” in public imposes an unbeatable rigor, since you can’t slack off and leave notes so brief and cryptic that they neither lodge in your subconscious nor form a record clear enough to refer to in future. By contrast, keeping public notes produces both a subconscious, supersaturated solution of fragmentary ideas that rattle around, periodically cohering into nucleii that crystallize into full-blown ideas for stories, novels, essays, speeches and nonfiction books. What’s more, those ripened ideas are supported by a searchable database of everything I’ve thought about the subject, often annotated by readers and other writers who’ve commented on the posts. I call this “The Memex Method”:<\/p>\n

The Memex Method<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n