@Maartje – that’s so brilliant! And so well put.

Plus I couldn’t be happier that you’re “fixing” my mistakes on your blog right off the bat (and hopefully leaving a few for someone else to receive encouragement from in a year or so!)

I’m also not a pointy writer, but I do use the black headers at the beginning of new ideas/concepts as a way to say “hey, I’m about to ramble in a slightly different direction now”.

Excited for you!

@Deb – agreed. “…there are a lot of blogs out there that ‘do it wrong’ but that rock!”

So so true.

@Diane – your blog is one of my favorites. Anyone who gets scared off by your intelligent prose and hi-this-is-me-ness doesn’t deserve to be there to begin with.

@JoVE – AWESOME. Love it.

@Fi – Sorry for getting your posts all mixed up. Love them all. And don’t know anything about Joomla other than the fact that it exists. Good luck with that, my dear.

@Chris – Oh, good. We can start a club of people who don’t do lists. Meh. Lists.

@Kristin – Hi! What a neat experience. I mean, to realize how much you’ve learned and how your style has shifted.

When I put up my old noozletters on the blog, I edited the hell out of them. Now I look back and I STILL think that “what was I thinking?” thing.

It’s all progress. I’m sure I’ll reread this post in a year (or two weeks) and say the same thing. Sigh. :)

*waves*

It’s me, the Dutch 1/23rd of your Shiva Nata starter kit sales.

I said I’d leave a comment once my blog was up & running, and I think 3 posts maybe qualifies. So, here’s to that. :)

I tried to learn from your ‘mistakes’ immediately, by adding oodles more whitespace than I usually do. Felt kinda spacey, though. I guess I’ve been indoctrinated by the whole ‘put-related-ideas-in-the-same-paragraph’-school of writing, and a little voice inside me is shouting ‘but if you add soooo many empty lines, how do you tell when you finish making one point and go on to the next?’

Which, now I think of it, feels a little like hubris, since I’m not a pointy writer but a rambly one.

Thanks for giving me the courage to go ahead and start a blog. And here’s to using my first posts (a year from now or so) to help other fledgeling bloggers by saying ‘See, I used to suck, and still I loved it.’