My first post for April, and it’s about…not posting.
After a flurry of activity on here during March, I’ve decided to cut back on the postings this month. The spectre of work (including finishing off the script for my next film) is looming, and the added pressure of finding something to talk to you about everyday is one that can happily slip down the priority list for a little while.
Jonathan McCalmont is a fan of the Slow Blog Manifesto, and I can see his point. Quality beats quantity anytime (see 12 episodes of “Fawlty Towers” versus 98 seasons of “Everybody Loves Raymond”…perhaps that’s an unfair comparison).
The notion of creative output and what is the “right” amount is an interesting one: on one hand, you have Woody Allen making a film year for decades on end with only a handful of duds among them. On the other hand, you have Stanley Kubrick who made films for decades which only number a handful. In “A Life In Pictures”, Kubrick’s wife Christiane said that he always wished he’d made more.
1 Comment
April 4, 2009 at 8:57 am
I’ve been enjoying your postings of late Christopher but it is always a good idea to take a break. It’s always better to have a stack of the ideas on the back burner than it is to be thinking “damn… haven’t posted… the stats are dropping!”. You’ll be back refreshed in no time I am sure