I'm so behind in blogreading, too
Aug. 19th, 2014 07:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotA couple of days ago, I was waffling over "should I do this corset thing as blog posts, or would it be more responsible to try to publish them?" And what it comes down to for me is:
Published in journal-
Pro: Put on resumé
Con: Unsure if Dress or a women's studies would want it as is, limited readership
Publish on blog-
Pro: Can link to it, can have it up once it's done, immediate feedback
Con: Feel like everyone but me is making professional gains and feel like even writing very good blog posts is not good enough
I go by numbers and not length of whines, so I am almost definitely going to just post it because in the end that seems the most rewarding. I will always be judging myself based on my classmates and always finding myself lacking. I have a book coming out and probably another one later plus that first one that's already done, if that's not good enough for me then having an article in a journal is not going to do it. Move on, Cassidy!
I'm going back and forth on putting works cited at the end of each post. On the one hand,months ago, around the time I posted my Queen Victoria myths post, someone wrote something on their own blog with a prefatory paragraph along the lines of "I see people taking posts seriously when they don't have footnotes/citations and a bibliography, and you should know that that's not academic." And I of course became irrationally concerned that this was pointed at me, and I started obsessively sourcing every factual statement and linking to the specific page in the book when possible. I resist doing bibliographies because I usually use a zillion sources - I go for primary sources and generally end up never finding two facts in one book. But at a glance, it's not clear that I'm linking to GBooks rather than random internet pages. Hm. I think I just use too many sources to create a bibliography for in a blog post.
Published in journal-
Pro: Put on resumé
Con: Unsure if Dress or a women's studies would want it as is, limited readership
Publish on blog-
Pro: Can link to it, can have it up once it's done, immediate feedback
Con: Feel like everyone but me is making professional gains and feel like even writing very good blog posts is not good enough
I go by numbers and not length of whines, so I am almost definitely going to just post it because in the end that seems the most rewarding. I will always be judging myself based on my classmates and always finding myself lacking. I have a book coming out and probably another one later plus that first one that's already done, if that's not good enough for me then having an article in a journal is not going to do it. Move on, Cassidy!
I'm going back and forth on putting works cited at the end of each post. On the one hand,months ago, around the time I posted my Queen Victoria myths post, someone wrote something on their own blog with a prefatory paragraph along the lines of "I see people taking posts seriously when they don't have footnotes/citations and a bibliography, and you should know that that's not academic." And I of course became irrationally concerned that this was pointed at me, and I started obsessively sourcing every factual statement and linking to the specific page in the book when possible. I resist doing bibliographies because I usually use a zillion sources - I go for primary sources and generally end up never finding two facts in one book. But at a glance, it's not clear that I'm linking to GBooks rather than random internet pages. Hm. I think I just use too many sources to create a bibliography for in a blog post.
