The River: it's not just a tag anymore.

[mdlbear]

Somehow the River has transmogrified itself from a series of introspective LJ posts into a Project. I have a directory with a handful of draft posts in progress in it, a to.do file with half-a-dozen more ideas, and an archive with some 20K words worth of posts in it (since the end of May, and not particularly complete at that; a quick check with wget and wc gets more like 40K, but that's an overestimate because many posts with the tag are only partially on-topic).

It occupies at least as much of my time and attention as filk music does these days. I'm starting to think of a wiki, and possibly even a book. (A Year on the River?) ETA: Before you ask: Yes, I would protect your privacy and other rights if I copied The River to some other medium: comments would stay behind, and names and userIDs would be turned into something else. Anything filtered would be very heavily edited. I may be crazy, but...

I apologize in advance.

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[mdlbear]

Important to me, certainly, and some other people seem to find it useful. It's certainly absorbing, and a great deal of fun.

Now that I think of it, it's an odd sort of fun that involves stretching my boundaries and facing myself in dark places. But it seems to be my kind of fun.