Subtitles

Subtle Insanity
Oh, and just so you all know... These little subtitles I do through my posts are sort of mini-bookmarks to break up the writing.

See, I did English at school (close to 5 years ago now, Christ, time flies) and I have rather a... vomiting approach to essays.

What I tend to do is empty my brain of all possible information. I find ideas are a lot like a fire, they spread and reach out to other touching points. Everything is interconnected, and we see that in day to day life.

Point to point to point to point
Ever had a conversation about one thing, and then 10 minutes later jumped to another topic and thought "how the hell did I get here?".
Well, when you think about it you'll normally see logical routes, from logical roots (ha). Maybe you started off talking about football (which I hate) and end up on pizza? Well maybe you once went to a football match and had pizza afterwards, and that's where you draw the link.

My posts are a lot like this. However I've also taken a big chunk of my previous writing style. I tend to rewrite and revise a blog post several times, and go back and edit it at a later point. I treat my original "bleurgh" of information as the raw matter, the clay, and from that I sculpt a coherent(ish) post, editing phrases, juggling order of sentences, and deleting that which is redundant.

Get on with it, would ya!?
I still ramble a bit, because I tend to ramble when I speak, but fuck it, this is my blog and it's all good information for me, you're just here for the ride!

Point is, one of the last things I do when I've written a blog-post is go back and read-through. I tend to write a lot so I'll add these little bench-marks of subtitles, which are generally a thought or phrase I feel applies to the next "part". That's mostly it, I go by feeling and gut instinct.

Ultimately, I don't put a lot of thought into these subs, as they're just a quick way of splitting up my blog-posts, so there's a fair amount of "streams of consciousness" about them. Though instead of a stream it's more a dollop, you get the idea.

So yeah, my subconscious (kinda) helping me write my blogs.

Steve