Daily

Yesterday was one full month of daily posts. All were written as described in the post on January 1, and it appears to be working well enough. Two days come to mind that weren’t as well done as preferred. The rest are adequate at least, and a few manage to still be interesting all these weeks later.

(Although I have a couple of pre-written posts in case I really needed a day off, I wanted to avoid doing that until at least a month had passed - if you can’t get through 31 days, after all, what hope is there for 365. )

Looking back over this long eventful month, it has involved

• A look at Benghazi - although more about how reactions to it are indicative of the shrillness of national discourse
• A couple of days talking about Captain America - as a movie, as a character in a movie, as a story, and all of them together.
• A few more days on other movies  - including Point Break - from a generational standpoint
• One day of trying to explain how this theory works, and another that looks just at the Crisis itself to see what it proposes, followed by an exercise showing how useful it was to know what to actually look for.
• Musings on what it means to be a Reactive, and an Xer in particular.

Lessons to date include

• It actually is difficult to write like this every day - sometimes inspiration takes a while to strike, others it simply isn’t there.
• It is also not simple to have a relevant Crisis-related post every day related to current events, even if current events are defined as “Since World War II, and even that’s okay if there’s a chance for an enlightening contrast.” Some days, the Crisis doesn't show in the news.
• Without a limit on how much time to spend on finding an appropriate topic, this could take all night. (2 hours is a fine one, going forward, although I’d prefer to start writing when I sit down and be done 30 minutes later, leaving a few minutes for finding Wikipedia links.)
• Having a definite list of items to relate to The Crisis is very helpful in deciding whether a given event has any relation. It’s otherwise easy to say “blah blah blah Millennials therefore Crisis blah.” (Which is not only weak but unlikely to be true.)

As long as I can find some time to write on the subject, though, having a post a day is doable. And I'm enjoying it.