For anyone out there who was interested in this blog, I’m back. I dropped out many months ago, and for my return, I think I should explain why. After my last post—which was on Peter Hujar and Richard Avedon—I froze up partly because the next thing I had to say about Peter and Avedon was, uh, a little difficult. It was about Avedon, Hujar, and the very tricky subject of success.
But a factor that was every bit as important in my fade-out was that I had not yet mastered (or even grasped) the technique of the blog. I have written a book on the techniques of writing, but I didn’t have even a clue about how to write a blog. Maybe I still done, but I do see—throught he fog—some basics: shortness, ease, relaxed connection, and most of all, speed.
In my last posts, the damn thing was taking way too long. The work was cutting into my other writing too much, and I was doing things—heavy, nuanced essays—that belong in other venues.
So—relaxed intimacy and speed, here I come. And to anyone who’s listening, you’ll be hearing from mt more often from now on.