[Question] Where do you think... such thoughtful posts with each new one?

Heh... she said I could be talkative!


Ok as an inspiration from the post you did in Angel's blog one, sorry again 'bout that "Giggle" where do you think it comes all the inspiration to make such thoughtful posts with each new one?
And yes you can be as talkative as you want ^.^

To catch everybody up, this is in references to a post and comments from Angel, myself and Alectra on Angel's Captions.  You really should be caught up, as you I am SURE you are reading Angel's blog as religiously as mine.  But just in case someone just got back from vacation I'll post a summary:

Angle was posting my recent cap for her as a guest cap.  I'm honored that she wanted to do such a thing.  In her post Angel was praising my comparing our posts by saying "by the time I post the caption, I'm lucky if I can add one or two lines about it". 

To which Alectra responded with "Don't worry about it Angel, not everyone can be a talkative bitch"

Yea... she was talking about me.  I'm evidently a Talkative Bitch.   I admit I do often ramble in my posts.  But to explain where the inspiration comes from requires a little background (yea.. its another way I get more words in!)

When I started this blog I never thought I would get over a hundred followers, several hundred visits daily, and thousands of page views daily.  My original idea was I would be one of those random blogs people stumble upon, see some nice caps, and head over to the Haven to see more.  Kind of a Highway sign pointing the way to Rachel's Haven.  But at the same time I thought it would be a nice place for me to write down what each cap was.  What I did to make it, what I liked about it, what I didn't like about it.  How I could improve it, and what I should use from it in the next cap.  This would be a good place for it, as again, I didn't expect many people to come read what I wrote.  

Now this might come across as a little odd... but I still have that same mentality.  All the tracking software in the world can't tell me how many people actually read these posts.  I do make you click to where you CAN see them, if you want to see the cap.  But that is just so I can track which caps are viewed more.  

As a quick asside, here are the top 5 caps viewed here at Caitlyn's Masks since opening my doors:

1. Time Travel Experiments - 6442 Pageviews
2. Man Up! - 6176 Pageviews
3. Fuck Time Travel! - 5900 Pageviews
4. Literature for the Mind, Body, and Soul - 5883 Pageviews
5. Not All wishes Go Wrong - 5606 Pageviews

Now those results are a little skewed to caps I posted after January of this year.  Thats when I changed the format a bit.   I find it funny that my most viewed cap, is basicly Smitty's caps with my words around them.  Way to go Smitty!

Anywho... back to me being wordy (see how I just threw in a bunch of extra words that seemed informative, but really are just taking up some more space, and increasing my word count!?).  When I make theses posts I have a small idea of what I want to say.  Like this post.. when I started, here is what I wanted to get across:

• Catch people up on why this question came in
• Explain that I write for me first, and visitors second
• Discuss stream of consciousness and show several branches

Thats it.  I could certainly do that with fewer words.  But what you are getting is a slightly edited version of my thought process.  Obviously it is edited to fit into paragraph form, and not involve all the side thoughts (man I want a cig, I wonder what I'll do for dinner, did Glen Miller just come up on the playlist, I wonder how DX is doing, when will Jennifer be back online, I should contact stacy to see how the RP is going....).  I don't just think in list form (although now that I put that list up there, I can't help but stare at it).  Nor do I put up an outside, and then start marking off things when I've covered them.  I just get in my head what I want to say, and start writing.  Its similar to how I write caps, but I'm becoming more disciplined in my writing, by reading and rereading before getting 3 pages down the wrong path.  

What I mean by 'write for me first' is that I am writing this down for me to read later.  I'm not talking about in 20 minutes, or several days... but when I want to remember or even relive the creation process I went through for a certain cap, I can go back and read the post I made for it.  So if you find that interesting, then I'm so happy to provide that for you.  And if you don't... well... I didn't expect you to, so I'm not hurt by it.  I'm just happy that you stopped by and read the cap!  

Now obviously there are times where I am writing for visitors.  These 'question' posts for example.  You asked, and I answer.  I didn't ask the questions, so its not completely for me.  BUT... I love the questions that make me think.  Because the more I think, and put vague ideas/thoughts/actions into words... the more I understand myself.  So in that way, I am still writing for me.  

And of course now I have no idea what I meant by 'steam of consciousness'.  Except that I stay on an idea until something else catches my fancy.  It might be one line to describe why I liked pink in a certain area... it might be 5 paragraphs.  I don't think it through beforehand... I just write what comes to mind.  And by writing in that way, I will often branch off onto some other subject, and may write for a lone while on that subject (like the top 5 cap/pages here... I never intended to write about that, but it came up, I looked it up, and posted it).  

So the short answer to your question Alectra (btw... did I mention that this question was from Alectra of Alectra's Playground?) I think the inspiration comes from the way I think.  Its not an intent to be thoughtful, or inspirational.  I'm happy that people read me that way... but its not on purpose.  Its not intentional.