FB is great for one-offs (and flamebait) to a select group.

Twitter is great for one-offs (and flamebait) to the world at large.

Neither is really suitable for a journal.

===

I've come to find out that I like to type about myself, and read about myself.

No, scratch that. I like to type about writing. It may be a cheat from actually writing fiction, but it's at least a start.

Thus, this.

I'm going to try to post more regularly, and to stay on a single topic: writing fiction.

===

I just came back from OryCon, a small-ish science fiction convention in Portland, Oregon. I hung out with a bunch of fandom types, most of whom have either first-hand friends who are published authors, or first-hand experience with being published authors.

It's quite inspiring.

One of the panel moderators was told by a Clarion award winner that "short stories don't matter." He was young, and he was pedigreed, so he was obviously full of himself.

However, was he right? Do short stories matter?

As that is my chosen form, I feel they do. Short stories force the author to hone, to focus, to pare down. Short stories have a velocity, a sense of purpose. Short stories are rewarding.

So are novels. The rewards are deeper, warmer, but slower. Some passages in a novel have a purpose of building sympathy with the character.

(TBC, but saving it so I can attend to another matter)