{"id":2112,"date":"2009-10-06T19:49:20","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T18:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=2112"},"modified":"2009-10-06T20:05:36","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T19:05:36","slug":"bushed-and-bad-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=2112","title":{"rendered":"Bushed and Bad Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi. How you doin&#8217;?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m fine thanks. Tired (yeah, I know I look it), but fine.<\/p>\n<p>New? Oh, you know. The same old same old.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a bleeding perfectionist, in more ways than one.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m re-editing Novel #2 down to the level of subatomic particles. I can&#8217;t help it, I&#8217;m OCD about writing. I&#8217;ll give you an example of the itch that if I could I&#8217;d scratch raw. I read a blog, it&#8217;s a new one. It&#8217;s about this decade, which is an interesting topic. I mean, would you really write about this decade whilst you&#8217;re still in it? From where comes the objectivity? Anyway, it&#8217;s really well written &#8211; that is, it is really well written from the point of style; the writing is appealing. But it&#8217;s really really shit in as much as it&#8217;s wildly inaccurate. You can&#8217;t, for example, say a thing occurred in this decade and then hilight a thing which began two years before this decade did. Why can&#8217;t you? Because it&#8217;s fucking inaccurate, dimbo. No professional newspaper or magazine editor (and no amateur ones I can think of) would accept such a screaming no-no. I should just give it the Vulcan Death Glare and walk away, but can I? Oh no. I&#8217;ve just got to go and leave a comment pointing out, to the author, how shite his logic is. Why can&#8217;t I just bin it and never revisit? Because I like the writing, is why. It&#8217;s like a really entertaining story about polar-bears originating in a tower block in Penge. And about as well-grounded in reality. An error that big &#8211; almost as big as the size of Jonathan Ross&#8217;s ego (if you can imagine something *that big*) should never have made it on to anyone&#8217;s monitor. I want to say &#8216;if you&#8217;re going to write well, then fucking write well!&#8217;, but I suppose what I should do is say &#8216;your research skills are considerably poorer than the average 8-year-old&#8217; and walk away. That&#8217;s my OCD I guess.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, elsewhere&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got six band\/album reviews to write. I&#8217;ve got a piece of freelance to write. I&#8217;ve got a radio script to finish. I&#8217;m behind on my Cubase homework. I&#8217;ve got an audio interview from one of the members of Fanfarlo to edit down. I&#8217;ve now got two horses to ride. I want to take a germ of an idea that&#8217;s been in my head for a few days and turn it in to a pop video script. And someone in London seems to be quite keen to hand me a three-month contract to sort out a bunch of their organisational issues.<\/p>\n<p>I also have 301 unread blogs in my bloglines account.<\/p>\n<p>And we did have 501 unread emails in the podcast inbox but I&#8217;ve just had a blitz and got that down to 350 unread. Another blitz tomorrow, methinks.<\/p>\n<p>And Soph&#8217;s just sent me a text saying she&#8217;s on her way home so I should start making crashing and banging noises in the kitchen. Not actually going to cook anything, just make lots of noise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi. How you doin&#8217;? I&#8217;m fine thanks. Tired (yeah, I know I look it), but fine. New? Oh, you know. 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