On syntax and style

I know what the problem is youall, it's not a matter of blogging per text versus per day, it's that this week I've been trying too hard to be syntactically precise (hence no posts). This comes of a desire to be syntactically unassailable. A common feeling, I think--well maybe not applied to syntax, to writing, but don't we all know the feeling of wanting to be criticism-proof? judgment-proof? If my sentences are precise and every antecedent is clear and sentence lengths and rhythms vary in an artful way etc. etc. etc. then that's one count fewer anyone reading can dismiss me on.

I don't know why I have this enemy mentality. No one's judging me nearly as harshly as I judge myself. At any rate, it's got to go, this insistence on strictness. It's keeping me from writing hence posting hence processing hence progressing. There's also a way in which tight syntax is brittle syntax. So--expect messy writing in future posts! If I haven't been messy already, come to think of it! I think it helps that I've met youall and now have not quite faces but usernames to attach to possible readers. :)