I spend a lot more time on my French hobby than I do writing this blog. My posts until now have been multi-paragraph affairs, along the lines of the 800-word newspaper column. As a result, it takes me a fair amount of “activation energy” to sit down and write an article, and somewhat more to finish an article. I have half a dozen abandoned posts lying around, and a dozen more sketched out in my head whose first words I never even put to paper (pixel). But I like the actual doing of the French hobby too much to do less of it in order to do more blog writing.
So I’m going to try an experiment with microblogging. Rather than (or, ideally, in addition to) writing medium- and long-form articles, I’m also going to make very short posts on my French hobby. I’ll try to avoid the “just ate a Hot Pocket” level of trivial detail, but the goal is to form a kind of diary of my daily French activities. These posts will more focus on the raw substance of what I do rather than on context, analysis, judgement, connection, or completeness.
It will no doubt take me some iteration and tinkering to get the technique right. A long stream of irregular, undifferentiated posts? A post per day with multiple updates? A post per week with updates? A post per undertaking (grammar exercises, TV series, books)? Who knows. I’ll start somewhere and see what happens.