A Great Rock Mix is on tap today.
RfL 2.0 is back in your ears. It just felt like time to drop another episode. We have a great rock mix today along with a bit of freeform jabber.
We are going to hear from Ari Shine, Rotoscope, The Substitutes, The Genders, and The Distillers. That is some great music.
Great rock mix with rocket City Riot. Also the return of Stupid Celebrity Crap, Celebrity Birthdays, and more.
The Polymorphines, Shattered Atom, The Palace Flophouse, The Deadly Vibes, and Rocket City Riot
The 2008 HALLOWEEN SPECIAL!
SJ starts things off today. It is fitting as he is a 500 year old red demon boy from the 5th dimension. The music today is all kinds of spooky.
We hear from Calabrese which opens and closes the show. Never so True brings up zombies, while monsters are the theme from Never so True, Matchbook Romance, The Hoodlum Circus, and The Powerknobs.
See, spooky!
It is time for some crazy daydreams. Not that you should start daydreaming right now, it is the name of episode #4 of the Animated Adventures!
The guys try to have a deep converstion. That can't be a good thing.
It is a Juggernaut to assault your ears! Hard Rock and Metal Friday!
We have bands from around the world for your ears. From The Netherlands, we have Chiraw and Non Devine. From California, we have favorites In Silence. From Nevada, we have royal court members Darque Carnival. From Washington, we have Lucid. And from Norway, we have K9!
Posts Tagged ‘first draft’
I Really Need to Work on My Workflow Order When I Blog
February 22nd, 2009 | 
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Elway says come get it, fool!
Here are the steps to how I blog:
- I write the post in a text editor, my favorite being Q10 with the typing sounds on
- I do a cursory read and make the post a bit more coherent
- I cut and paste this into my Wordpress WYSIWYG
- I format any HTML needed in the post in the Wordpress HTML editor
- I give it a quick read
- I post it
- I finally give it the read it deserves, and find a crap-load of mistakes which I then correct
Why do I do things in this order? I seem to be unable to spot my own typos until my work is posted. I don’t know if it is because I am impatient. I don’t know if it is because I can’t visualize the final draft until it is no longer in draft form.
Either way, as soon as I see the posted content, I find and correct my errors. Everything should be alright at that point, if it weren’t for one little thing, my feeds.
Yep, the feeds pick up on the post before I get my corrections in place. Those that subscribe probably think I am barely literate. It is a bit aggravating.
I subscribe to the tenet of one of the greats, Hemingway, who said, “the first draft of anything is shit.”
But what I have now, looking at my Feedburner numbers, is hundreds of people getting that shit-strewn first draft. And to make it worse, it is all my own fault.
Maybe I need to stop my automatic work flow and deliberately start making new, more productive and correct habits.
Since I seem to need to see the final version before editing, maybe I need to save everything as a draft and then look at the post as if it were posted.
I know this seems silly to some, but this is just a result of years of bad habits that I now need to deliberately address and stop. Breaking habits and replacing them with better habits is not all that easy. A habit is, all in all, something that a person performs without thought, automatically.
Whatever the final solution to braking these bad habits, I need to start implementing ideas now as this is getting a bit more than embarrassing.
So, off to habit breaking war I go.
Cheers,
Eban
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Tags: Blogging, Editing, Feeds, first draft, Hemingway, proofreading, RSS, stress | 
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