Thank you for not reading.

Thank you for not reading my blog.

It's not really a blog any more than the results of NaNoWriMo constitute a novel. At best it's the raw material for a novel which will require a great deal of editing. At worst it's the side effects of an exercise whose main result was the experience.

I started this blog with the idea that I would turn out coherent finished products once a day. The real result is that I'm learning that isn't really possible. At best I can approximate that. Some days, what I write will make some sense. Other days, less so. Some days it will have something somewhat interesting in it while other days (and I'm thinking of yesterday now) it won't cohere.

I haven't saved yesterday's writing yet. I'm afraid to look it over. I could edit it into a blog post but it's a new day already so I'm not sure that's allowed. Certainly I should at least finish today's post first or else I'll fall behind and never catch up.

I'm allowed to edit yesterday's writing because:

• I'm making up the rules as I go along.
• Today's new made-up rule is that I have to start the new day's post before going back to the old.
• I have, in fact, edited previous day's posts before (though only in minor ways) so there's precedent.
• We're trying to have a minimum of arbitrary constraints.
• And, you'll remember, I dislike constraints and have only accepted those few I did accept provisionally.
• I'm not sure what the word "provisionally" means, but I meant that I reserve the right to do whatever the fuck I want.
• If that last point is true, then the whole project is a lie.
• It's both true and not-true. It's being worked out in the project itself. It's being worked out in this very list.

So, thank you for not reading because it's not yet ready to be read by anyone but me and if others are reading it will just inhibit me even more.

Now I'm ready to go back and look at what I wrote yesterday and deal with it in some way.