Trying to write. Big stuff is hard work and I am not used to that anymore. I think that I need to get back to the basics and realize that outlines and drafts work better than my lazy, stream of consciousness. I think a lot of the time, things here on the web are the product of a certain amount of laziness and I am probably more guilty than most.
Consider this little gem that popped up over at wikipedia:
So, it appears that 16,000 words is somewhere in the range of a novellete or a a low-end novella.
Then consider the subject. Baby boomers. Pretty easy stuff: people in the US born between 1946 and 1964. So 16,000 words on a subject with a simple definition. Must be a lot of freight in that train. All I wanted was the definition.
Complex issues, freighted with a lot of nuance, secondary meanings, and societal taboo are not amenable to short blog posts or tiktok videos. Maybe actually trying to understand any “whole issue: and the repercussions of any decision is difficult for me and others here in the simulacrum of discourse that is our digital stomping ground. I’m going to keep trying, but nearly everything worth talking about ends up in yet another rabbit hole.
Rabbit hole is just another word for hard work.
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