Resurgent Drafts

Posted at 11:07 am on Thursday, October 25, 2007, in Resurgent Drafts.

As I mentioned in my blogger manifesto (or my most recent manifesto, since I will probably end up writing more of them, hopefully none that end up as news on MSNBC), there are blogposts I write that die on the vine. I start them and either never finish them, forget to post them, make them part of a bigger blogpost, or just drop the subject completely. I usually take the time and effort to delete the post. Other times, they hold on. I think that maybe I will use the post later, which I seldom ever do, and eventually they get pushed down the ladder, and I never see or think of them again.

Google’s Blogger tool marks these forgotten posts as “draft,” and last night I realized that I had 21 saved drafts in the system. (I thought it would have been closer to seven; twenty-plus caught me off-guard.) Most of them are junk, some of them are templates, but a few I wish I had posted and I’m not completely sure why I didn’t. I either thought the topic was too moment-oriented, e.g., Katrina, London bombings, miscellaneous topic-du-jour, etc., to publish them and add to the endless blogposts about the subject in the so-called blogosphere, or some of them were possibly caught by my filter, my wife. I do post mostly without editorial oversight, but every now and then, I do get the “unexpressed” feeling that it would be better if I un-post a certain post. Other posts I start, save to finish later, and never do. All of these entries potentially become saved drafts.

In an effort to clean out the Blogger shed, I plan on posting some of these saved drafts. My writing style has changed over the course of this blog, and it is certain I would not post the entry as written if I were to publish it today, if at all, however, I will only make necessary edits — spelling, broken links — to the posts. Other than that, they will be published as I wrote them. I will make note of the original draft date, and do somewhat of an annotation of the blogpost, as required, and as I see fit.

(I was thinking how interesting it would be to annotate one’s life, but then I realized, a blog is as annotative as one can get. Introducing MyAnnotatedLife.com.*)

* I know, it’s available.

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