I'm the kind of person who prefers to establish working frameworks before tacking on material and, as a consequence, the website indicates items that have been planned but are as yet written. This causes concerned visitors to email me about inactive links. But that's okay being the social creature that I am.
The thing I have with the site is that it's not obvious to a visitor what work might be underway, since only the results of the process are seen, and not the process itself. Some projects can take several months to complete; tutorials for example take 4-6 weeks. The top of my enticingly voluptuous In-tray currently looks like:
- research the role of Puerto Ricans in Salsa, which will result in an additional chapter in the History of Salsa (4 weeks gone, and at least 4 weeks more to go);
- Percussion: Bongó webpage in For Players (1 week);
- Percussion: Timbales webpage in For Players (2 weeks);
- Planning the Piano section of the Salsa: Ear Training section (4 weeks so far, indeterminate time-scale).
This blog's great because it gives an indication of progress and I have a historical record of site evolution.
An unexpected boon of blogging has been how it's helped my writing. The first few months back to regular penmanship were downright painful (writing articles and tutorials after a two-year hiatus), but the practice is proving quite invaluable. On the down-side, I'm spending time blogging when I really should be spending it writing webpages. Sigh.
Unable to deflect the scornful arrows of necessity any longer, I'm off to write some more, and elsewhere.
Loo Yen Yeo
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