[pct-l] Trail Journals

[G. Lowe aka Wheeew]

Follow????  Follow who???  You????  That wouldn't be pretty.

Please forward  your trail journals web site address to me.  I have yet to receive it.

As far as "drama queen', consider a humor transplant as well as a lesson (or two) in humility.

In the meantime, I accept your blanket apology issued to all members of this list.

Wheeew

Alison Rose <a.rose at sbcglobal.net> wrote:     YIKES!!  You'd rather gouge out your eyes than follow  somebody's recommendation?  What a drama queen.  A few suggestions  were made to journalists who place their product on the world wide web.   Where's the harm in making suggestions?
  
 ----- Original Message ----- 
    From:    G. Lowe aka    Wheeew 
   To: Alison Rose ; PCT 
   Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 7:21    AM
   Subject: Re: [pct-l] Trail Journals
   

Favor:  Would all those post-ers that came up with "rules"    for Trail Journals please send me the web addresses of THEIR journals, so that    I might critique them??

And this:  If anyone writing a TJ IS    following all the suggested "rules", I can promise you, I will never, EVER    read your journal again!!!  

The point missed is this:  TJ's    are (or should be) for the AUTHORS enjoyment, not the readers!!  If the    readers should enjoy them as well, so much the better.  But write them    for your OWN enjoyment.  Not all writers are created equal.  Like    most people, I am inept at many things in life, and proficient at    others.  The unmitigated arrogance of thinking that I, or other TJ    authors "owe" you a "performance"  or need to follow a RIGID set of    guidelines DICTATED to us is a shameful slap in the face to those who take on    the labor-intensive act of keeping a TJ.  

I would rather poke my    eyes out with a phillips head screwdriver  than follow the suggested    "guidelines".  Let's hear if for artistic freedom!

Hike    On!

Wheeew

Alison Rose    <a.rose at sbcglobal.net> wrote:                   Dear Dr. Bob ~
      
     A very good point indeed and I, for one, certainly thank      you for making it.  
     A whiney, long-winded, self indulgent journal should be      kept private. That
     being said, the well intentioned advice      is offered to those who specificially
     wish to post a public journal for the world to see.       As most will notice,
     those journals will be read by somewhere between 20,000      and 150,000 people.
     Many read these journals in preperation for their own      hike, so providing some
     of the recommended information is a tremendous gift to      them.  Thus, if
     you want your journal to be interesting and relevent,      kindly follow the
     recommendations.  If not, as in Dr. Bob's example,      keep them private.  And I,
     for one, will thank you.  Thank you, thank you very      much.
      
      
     One thing I like about trail journals is their wide diversity,      reflecting
the individual.  The fact that all journals do not follow      the same terse
guidelines helps one with insights into differing      personalities and the
trail day as experienced in differing ways by      different people... the
essence of HYOH.  Besides, for whom is a      trail journal written?  Is it to
entertain or educate others and      written with an eye to avoiding critical
comment?  (Gee, should I      write this...?  I may be viewed as "whining.")  If
so, some      might suggest it may be flawed from the outset. I use a MP3 player
to      talk into as I hike. It's in my front pocket and several times a mile      I
grab it to record thoughts, sightings, people's names, as well as host      of
comments on my physical state of being that I want to remember as part      of my
trail experience.  Example: Whew, did I just have projectile      diarrhea! (No,
not this posting, folks).  Sometimes I ramble on      (just like this post,
folks). I am guilty of writing more a trail diary      than a log or journal.  It
is precisely because of comments like the      well-intentioned guidelines
suggested below that I have never publicly      posted my four trail "journals."
While I sure enjoy reading other      accounts occasionally, mine proudly include
whining and stay deliciously      private.  :)

Dr Bob      

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