William Gibson on Blogging

The Ape With No Name writes "With Pattern Recognition now out, Gibson talks to the Guardian about blogging, which ones he's looking at and why he may have to quit blogging himself. He's quoted as saying '...if I'm ever going to write another book, I'm going to have to quit doing my blog as I have a hunch it interferes with the ecology of being a novelist.'"

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meaning changed

[John_Renne]

At first I considered a blog as somekind of diary people would keep online. The main reason people would read blogs was inspired by some kind of voyeurism. Nowadays most blogs are just a view on todays (or yesterdays) news. People nowadays read blogs to read the headlines and possibly different opinions .

I've once started a blog myself. Didn't last too long. The process of starting on including installing etc. was more fun to me than writing in it every day ;-)

Re:Blogging ruining his flow as a writer...

[tankdilla]

William Faulkner is a famous author whose novels contain moments when one or more pages is a continuous stream of consciousness. It ends up looking like he went off on a tangent and then got back to the story. Takes a good bit of focus to keep the plot in mind while going through someone else's stream of consciousness. I remember re-reading passages several times making sure I didn't miss something important.

He mentioned this...

[Senjaz]

He mentioned this before at least at the book signing in Birmingham if not before then too.

He said it's difficult because the 'blog provides an outlet for your thoughts and material, it doesn't have chance to accumulate.

So he doesn't 'blog when he is writing, that gives him chance to fill a store of thought enough to fill a book.