When a blogpost eats another

Some random ramble about starting to write a blogpost only to realize it could end up as something different and maybe better too.

I was halfway through writing a pretty interesting blogpost today. Some thoughts about all the science fiction films I’ve watched this year! It’s seriously so much I realized I should probably save it for the end of the year.

Why you ask? Well, because I can literally make a recap of only sci-fi movies, and a recap of other movies if I want to, and all I have to do is wait for the end of the year.

I’ll definitely save the writing I already did, and probably use some of it for this month’s recap as well.

(If you’re curious about it, this month I have watched The War of the Worlds—awesome and terrifying—, Mercy—pretty meh—, The Day The Earth Stood Still—absolute masterpiece—, and I’m halfway through Minority Report—which is looking great.)

(As another aside, let me know if what I just did with those commas and em dashes is stylistically correct or whatever, I thought it looked kinda neat and I have read a couple books that have used that weird em-dash+comma thing. If you have to know, yes, I am stealing the whole paragraph inside a parenthesis idea from the Murderbot novels. Also is the last dot supposed to go inside or outside the parenthesis? I don’t wanna skim through the novel to check.)

In any case, I think this thing where you start writing something only to realize it should probably be something bigger (or maybe smaller, sometimes) can happen in plenty of situations, and I wonder how much does it take for some people to realize this! The treshold is different for everyone I guess.

For example, I have plenty of posts on a series titled “What Interested Me Today”—which is yet to have an actual category or special index for it—and I’ve thought about stealing some other formats from some fellow bloggers, when my weeknotes aren’t enough and I simply have short thoughts to say.

Perhaps a quick and random list of thoughts is fun, like what Loura did just now as I was writing this post. Or like Steve’s thoughts of the day, which is a fantastic little series that I always peek through to see what’s up with the guy.

But well, maybe I should just write my thoughts on those sci-fi films already, gushing about movies is something I rarely do, after all.

For now, you’ll have to settle with a ramble, bye!

This is day 42 of #100DaysToOffload