A Little Internet Tomfoolery

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Warning: The following is about blogging, not anime or manga.''

There's another great post over at Cutfilm Tovent, this time about my earlier post on the art of anime. I read the post with great sympathy, because I was there for years, and I still deal with it.

To quote from the post: ...how can one describe such slippery ideas as melody, rhythm, timbre and such, which provoke such strong emotions but defy easy linguistic pigeonholing

Even when I love the look of a series, I find it very hard to string together the right words to explain why, or to at least describe it to a somewhat accurate degree. The key to the difficulty lies in the adjectives: ...defy easy linguistic pigeonholing...

...I find it very hard to string together the right words... Sure, it's hard.

I wanted to be one of those bloggers I read about in magazines, the bloggers who launched a blog and, after 3 months or 6 months, had 10,000 readers and a growing pile of Google ad revenue.

The reality: It's really hard. There's no easy pigeonholing, and it is very very hard to string together the words properly. I've had to push myself to do it anyway, to keep up with topics I don't care about (I can't believe how often I read ANN these days), to analyze a frame or a concept I wouldn't normally think about, to generally work harder than I want to.

And I'm still working. I'm still challenging myself. This is not to say I'm awesome; it's to say that this is my path.

If you're struggling, I think the best advice comes from Robert Frost: The best way out is always through.

I'm pulling for you.