Comments on: Tales of a Scorched Earth: year two http://toase.net/2005/06/10/tales-of-a-scorched-earth-year-two/ love/hate video games. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:08:52 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Twist http://toase.net/2005/06/10/tales-of-a-scorched-earth-year-two/comment-page-1/#comment-344 Twist Mon, 13 Jun 2005 01:27:52 +0000 http://toase.net/wp/?p=298#comment-344 I am one of those who check your site every day to see if you've updated, and I enjoy your work. You love gaming. I love gaming. It'll be sad to have a voice disappear, only to be replaced by yet another teenager posting things like 'ZELDAA RULZ!' Sigh. Good luck in the future, Sean I am one of those who check your site every day to see if you’ve updated, and I enjoy your work. You love gaming. I love gaming. It’ll be sad to have a voice disappear, only to be replaced by yet another teenager posting things like ‘ZELDAA RULZ!’

Sigh.

Good luck in the future,

Sean

]]> By: peterb http://toase.net/2005/06/10/tales-of-a-scorched-earth-year-two/comment-page-1/#comment-343 peterb Sat, 11 Jun 2005 20:26:50 +0000 http://toase.net/wp/?p=298#comment-343 I feel your pain. I feel it to the point that when I started out with my online repository of articles (see the lengths we can go to to avoid the term "weblog"?) I wrote a little <a href="http://tgr.com/weblog/archives/000020.html" rel="nofollow">philosophy</a> article, talking about what I would and would not do. It's tough. On the one hand, you don't want to <i>never</i> refer to other sites, because what if they're relevant? On the other hand, if all you do is refer to other sites, you become a self-referential whirlpool of suck. What I, personally, try to do is (1) write long articles, not short ones, (2) include hyperlinks after the article, as an appendix, rather than inline in the text, and (3) don't "blog about blogging". I may not always succeed, but trying to follow those guidelines has made my work better, I think. Good luck with your writing. peterb I feel your pain.

I feel it to the point that when I started out with my online repository of articles (see the lengths we can go to to avoid the term “weblog”?) I wrote a little philosophy article, talking about what I would and would not do.

It’s tough. On the one hand, you don’t want to never refer to other sites, because what if they’re relevant? On the other hand, if all you do is refer to other sites, you become a self-referential whirlpool of suck.

What I, personally, try to do is (1) write long articles, not short ones, (2) include hyperlinks after the article, as an appendix, rather than inline in the text, and (3) don’t “blog about blogging”.

I may not always succeed, but trying to follow those guidelines has made my work better, I think.

Good luck with your writing.

peterb

]]>