Inside Out

I’m baaaaaack!

I’d like to be able to say that I’m back and rarin’ to go, but honestly, I’m still pretty run down. It’s been a hell of a month. Months. Year. And what I’d like to do more than anything else is call in to work and curl up under a big, fluffy blanket with a mug of hot cocoa and peppermint schnapps and watch Miyazaki movies for the next week or so.

But here I am.

I’ve been deliberating lately over whether I should continue to write Inside Out, and, if so, what (if any) kind of schedule I can commit to. I was very, very close to either scrapping the column altogether or putting it on indefinite hiatus. I may still be - I’m honestly not sure.

Here’s the deal: I’m doing a lot of writing these days. In addition to freelance gigs, I’m writing a series (among other content) for Sequential Tart, judging at Project: Rooftop (Joan Rivers, eat your heart out!), doing independent scholarly research, and - and this one’s the clincher - working on my application to a low-residency M.F.A. writing program. Lots of words, and that’s in addition to working full-time and then some, serving as a board member and treasurer of Girl-Wonder.org, moderating a couple fora, building a loft in my studio, getting ready to teach wireworking classes, and developing a top secret super-awesome charity project (I promise I’ll tell you soon!), maintaining personal relationships, and occasionally sleeping - and I’ve got my country’s 500th anniversary to plan, my wedding to arrange, my wife to murder, and Guilder to frame for it; I’m swamped.

So, where does all of that leave Inside Out? As I said, I’m really not sure. To some extent, I think I’m going to leave it up to you.

Here are some options:

-Inside Out could become a more general blog, in which I write about my relationship and reactions to comics but spend less time on the industry and more time on scholarship, reviews, and personal observations.

-I could continue to focus on the industry but make more of my posts more personal and anecdotal.

-I could post long critical and informative columns but do so only sporadically.

-I could make Inside Out primarily a q/a and advice column.

-You tell me.

December 2nd, 2007
Categories: Personal, blogging, meta, writing . Author: Rachel Edidin

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