Student "edition" found at {csi dot journalspace dot com}.

Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

With today's posts, I have just surpassed the one thousand and six hundredth marker for both of my on-line journals, since starting four years and three months ago.

Because I began with two posts per regular school day with the student friendly version two months shy of two years ago, at this point I have already compensated for all the Sundays and term breaks that I was silent.

Not that it means I will only be averaging more than one post a day from this point on, since it will still be pulled back by all the Sundays, holidays and school vacations yet to come, some of which last more than a week long.

But for now, since there are very few academic discussions I can call upon anyway with the term having already finished, I would like to continue my talk from last week and in the other journal about why I write, and what I believe I have accomplished with these regular missives.

One of the first things that I believe I have overcome forcing myself to write a target number of words almost everyday is writer's emotional block, drawn from just writing when one “feels like it”, or when one feels he or she is not “too busy”.

Sooner or later, as I have often seen with the virtual chronicles of people whose writings I decided to start following, I lose interest when they don't post frequently enough. It's just like seeing a whale surface every kilometer or so in the ocean, where, if the whale were to speak, it would suddenly start talking about a topic on which I'd be lost since the last time we met.

Sure it could talk about what had happened all that time “underwater” but most likely than not it's going to be a condensed version of the events, like “oh, I read several books all that time” which will leave me disappointed in missing out on the details, something that would not have happened if the whale had gone up for air every few feet.

That's the difference between writing on-line and off. Off, you have no one to write to but yourself, so it doesn't matter how rarely you check in.

With the writings being readable by potentially millions of people with a connection, there's underlying pressure to fulfill other people's expectations, which the writer has implicitly agreed to by virtue of posting on-line.

Session 1601 is an irregular, non-detailed and no-sense-of-continuity poster. Class dismissed.