One of the reasons I blog is that it forces you to shoot from the hip and not polish things. For example, in the “Why I Write” article I used the word “quite” 3 times in a few sentences and I forced myself to hit “Publish” rather than going back to wordsmith it … because “shipping is a feature”. An article published is better than one in a sockdrawer, even if it is only published to a blog.<\/p>\n
But even I have my limits. When I was reading over the article again and realized that I consistently spelled Allen Ginsberg as Alan Ginsburg, even though I copyedited it and checked it against the Wikipedia article, I found I had to go back and fix the article.<\/p>\n
And I also fixed the “quites”.<\/p>\n
Oh well. I suppose that no matter how much you try to make yourself commit to publishing over polishing, there’s some amount of polish that must be done … sooner or later, published or not. If there are real mistakes, you gotta fix ’em.<\/p>\n
Han still shot first, though.<\/p>\n
-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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