I *hate* moving. My fiance and I are in the process of relocating for the summer. It’s amazing how much crap accumulates during the course of a school year.<\/p>\n
When we git outta here tomorrow morning, we’re going to commence drivin’ cross country. Consequently, I probably won’t be a font of great political posts.<\/p>\n
Instead, I’m chewing on art versus commercialism this morning. Nick Mamatas<\/a> posts today, wondering whether writers do themselves a disservice by focusing on the social, commercial, and networky aspects of the field. He’s “beginning to wonder if being a busy blogger and con-hopping and online-workshopping and all that other stuff actually slows one’s rate of learning how to write a story.”<\/p>\n I’d imagine this sort of debate is generalizable to other artistic fields. It seems like there are a bunch of artists hanging out ’round here — even an SF writer or two. So what do you all think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I *hate* moving. My fiance and I are in the process of relocating for the summer. It’s amazing how much crap accumulates during the course of a school year. When we git outta here tomorrow morning, we’re going to commence … Continue reading