Why I Journal
August 26, 1998
5:16 a.m.
Today I'll finish the short story I started just before leaving for WorldCon. Tomorrow I'll begin plotting out the story I'll write with Laura Resnick. She sent me the guidelines a day or two ago, and their pretty generic. I've already got an idea, though. And I'll see what I can do with it. Yesterday I saw Diana Rowland's journal entry about what people think of journals. Not having actually seen the page in question, I have to say that it's probably right in that there are a ton of journals out there, and that a bunch of them are probably pretty crappy. Maybe even including mine. But I don't keep this journal for anyone else. Oh, believe me, I'm glad that everyone who reads it is here, and I love getting e-mail when something I write strikes a nerve with folks. But I keep this up here for me. I keep it here because it keeps me focused and it keeps some pressure on me to actually produce something, you know. I mean, how many entrys would you folks want to read that said "Didn't do anything today." ... Just do you know, I've updated the site a bit. You can find my thoughts on writing "Ties That Bind", which is in this issue of Adventures of Sword and Sorcery". And, in that same vein, I've updated my bibliography. Nothing overly spectacular yet ... Have a great day.  Daily Persistence is © Ron Collins |
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"With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not--they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind." Edgar Allan Poe |
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