Hiatus
The Workshop is on hiatus until I finish my dissertation, which will hopefully happen at the end of this year. Not that this will change the state of affairs around here—there will still be no new content for massive stretches of time, but at least now I won’t be pretending that I am going to write something and you won’t be sitting there wondering when I am going to write something. With everything on my plate these days, the last thing I need on my website is a little reminder of how many hundreds of hours it has been since I posted something here.
So that’s that.
What is The Workshop?
The Workshop is a place for me to put in-progress writing. It was inspired by NaNoWriMo, a yearly event that encourages writers to turn off their internal editors and simply write—no matter how heinously bad the ensuing flood of creativity may be. I enjoyed the experience so much that I decided to continue writing in this way even after the NaNoWriMo month of November was over.
The real purpose of The Workshop is to keep me accountable, rather than to be a showcase of my writing. Putting my writing online gives me a definite goal and motivates me to stick to my resolution. I designed this page with this purpose in mind, and it is the answer to the following questions:
- Why are there no archives?
- Why are there no nifty color schemes?
- Why is there no way for me to comment?
- Why is there no RSS feed? (OK, we’re in limbo on this one at the moment, but nothing has been decided yet.)
- Why does the writing suck so badly?
- Why hasn’t world peace been achieved yet?
Not that I don’t want you to read the writing here—if I didn’t want anyone to read it, I wouldn’t put it online. Just understand that what I write here is primarily for me.
If you want to see some finished works, go check out the Writings section at Liminality (my main website). In fact, much of what I write here is grist for that mill, so you may see the writing here appear there later in a more polished form.
Special thanks to those who helped me out in putting this together, especially DL-44, who helped me figure out a particular thorny CSS problem. The JavaScript used for this “help” box you are reading right now comes from James Jacobs’ Dynamic HTML page.
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