I have 228 draft posts. Some are posts that I plan to post. Some are little fragmentary ideas that never got anywhere. Some I wrote and realized made no sense. Or were just plain offensive. Some got pushed back over and over as I got wrapped up in the topic of the month, only to find them weeks later, irrelevant and inaccurate.
I'm trying to delete them, but it's almost like cleaning out a cluttered attic. Maybe I'll want this one later.
Do you also have a lot of draft posts, floating around?
I don't have quite that many... but I know I probably have a good 50 or so drafts.
ReplyDeleteI have 3 drafts in the folder, and I think 2 of them are husband's. We will publish just about any drivel, I guess.
ReplyDeleteI usually have none, I delete them or complete them when I notice them and have time to do so.
ReplyDeleteI have 10 or 12 - some are almost ready to publish, some are maybes, and some will probably never see the light of day. However, I am also nowhere as prolific as you.
ReplyDeleteI think that the number of draft posts you have, while it may seem excessive, is a positive thing. I'm trying to make "starting a draft" a habit whenever I get an idea, in hopes that I will have something to work on finishing if I should run out of ideas. So I guess you could be an inspiration for me, in that way (I've got a long way to go, tho!).
And Zelmaru, I can't think of one post by you or ATT that has been drivel since I began reading your work.
I have about 40 sitting in the draft state. Some are placeholders for things I want to write but have never quite gotten there. Others are posts I launched into with a full head of steam but which never quite reached fruition.
ReplyDeleteSo, to me, 228 seems like a lot.
Are you people crazy?
ReplyDelete0. Can I have some of yours?
That seems like a lot to me, but the principle of having several half-baked ideas in the wings is very familiar. I'm sitting on maybe a dozen articles I've started, and easily a dozen more I've scribbled notes on paper for here and there. Then a dozen or so I'd like to do but haven't written anything about...
ReplyDeleteGood news! I deleted about 140 of them. I decided that posts from BC were probably no longer relevant and there was a reason I'd ignored them for three years.
ReplyDeleteI don't have any either. I've had one or two unfinished drafts saved at some point, but I can never stand to look at them for long and quickly feel the urge to either finish and publish or delete them.
ReplyDeleteI tried saving my rants in drafts... Never got anything written.
ReplyDeleteSo I have 0 drafts
Ideas are coming all the time. The problem is writing them down in a conconvince fashion. I don't need to conserve ideas for future use ;)
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