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August 30, 2005
An important note to readers
Someone asked me yesterday if it’s become a burden to write a blog entry every day. Indeed, it has. It would be easier if, like other bloggers, I simply posted my undigested, first-drafty ruminations on whatever happens to be on my mind. But I do not. Each sentence is carefully polished and crafted for maximum effectiveness. The previous sentence, for instance, went through fourteen revisions before I settled on the one you just read. The sentence about the fourteen revisions was rewritten eight times. And so on.
In addition, I do all my own copy-editing, scanning each entry for grammer mistakes and typos. This in itself is tiring, difficult work but ultimately worthwhile as part of the effort to maintain the high quality to which Minor Tweaks readers have become accustomed.
So, to sum up, yes it is a burden. A terrible, terrible burden. And those of you who check the blog regularly are only making it worse. So, please, go do something -- anything -- else. Call an old friend. Bake a pie. Call an old friend and offer him or her some of the pie you just baked. You know, whatever.
Posted by teb at August 30, 2005 10:05 AM