Say, Say, Say

There are two kinds of blog posts.

The first are easier to write.  I've written thousands of them.  One simply takes a position on something and discusses it.  Doesn't matter if its a prescription for play, a deconstruction of some element of life, a review, a commentary on someone else's opinion or whatnot.  Basically, just as I'm writing now about blogging, the idea is to sound very intelligent about a thing.  To be accurate, or insightful, or just entertaining.

The other kind is harder to write.  Hardly anyone does it.  Whole blogs do not contain the second kind.  These are posts where the writer explains, "I've done something ... this is what it is and how it works."  What's different with these posts is that they rely upon doing, not saying.  The saying is irrelevant, really.  If the thing itself has any merit, then very little, or nothing, needs to be said.

I've felt lately that I'm not writing nearly enough of this second sort.  Spiritually, I'm far more gratified when writing doing posts.  See, it's rather easy to tease oneself into thinking that a stream of commentary posts are pushing forward the envelope of knowledge, but that's just hash.  All one needs to see that is to do something.  Once we've done, its painfully clear how long we've gone without doing.

This is where I am.  I can see the map-making blog isn't nearly as popular as this one.  That's fine.  But just now, between working on the maps and working on the splatbook, and my job, it seems like such a waste of effort to wallow around here writing posts about ... well, empty air.  With nothing in it that I've done.

I'll be back when I have something to show.