so much to say and no way to say it
May 24, 2006 5:14 AM Subscribe
I want to be able to write a good FPP
I read a whole bunch of stuff on the web nearly every day, and a lot of the time I feel like other people might enjoy or appreciate reading the same stuff. That's pretty much the whole ethos behind MetaFilter in the first place. But I never seem to be able to make the connection between thinking "This is a good article. They'd enjoy this" and actually putting together something that might pass muster as an entry on my LiveJournal or even (the holy grail itself) as a MeFi FPP. So how do I make myself make this jump? I suppose in particular, how do I go about crafting a good FPP for MeFi? I've read enough pile-ons to know that a single-link FPP is almost never a good idea, and a bunch of links without any kind of editorial link between them is also frowned on. And a deeply editorialised screed on a hobby horse is less attractive still. But how can I take a middle course between these pitfalls without getting tied up in knots about what people will and wont find interesting?
And how can I get my brain to stop reading the next article before I've sat down and done something with the one I just finished? It's like I've got ADHD, but only in my online persona.
And just as an aside, this article by Shirky was what I was reading when I started thinking this time about writing an FPP and got scared off. I have no idea where I could develop this past that single link.
I read a whole bunch of stuff on the web nearly every day, and a lot of the time I feel like other people might enjoy or appreciate reading the same stuff. That's pretty much the whole ethos behind MetaFilter in the first place. But I never seem to be able to make the connection between thinking "This is a good article. They'd enjoy this" and actually putting together something that might pass muster as an entry on my LiveJournal or even (the holy grail itself) as a MeFi FPP. So how do I make myself make this jump? I suppose in particular, how do I go about crafting a good FPP for MeFi? I've read enough pile-ons to know that a single-link FPP is almost never a good idea, and a bunch of links without any kind of editorial link between them is also frowned on. And a deeply editorialised screed on a hobby horse is less attractive still. But how can I take a middle course between these pitfalls without getting tied up in knots about what people will and wont find interesting?
And how can I get my brain to stop reading the next article before I've sat down and done something with the one I just finished? It's like I've got ADHD, but only in my online persona.
And just as an aside, this article by Shirky was what I was reading when I started thinking this time about writing an FPP and got scared off. I have no idea where I could develop this past that single link.
This post was deleted for the following reason: please post this in metatalk
Ignore people who frown on single links. There is nothing wrong with them - my post history is pretty much all single links. Find something cool, and post it. Shouldn't this be in MeTa tho?
posted by Orange Goblin at 5:51 AM on May 24, 2006
posted by Orange Goblin at 5:51 AM on May 24, 2006
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posted by fire&wings at 5:21 AM on May 24, 2006