I found it ironic that Julie said: “Everyone is so focused on why they in particular are so special and deserving that we have forgotten that we have to earn it first”.

Doesn’t everyone hits complacency and dry spells? I think you said it best. Only blog when you feel compelled to do it. The problem I have lately is time. What compels me takes so much time to compile, competing with other obligations, that I frequently can’t post it. I have no less than 400 unpublished posts in various stages of completion :(… I’m probably not unusual in that either.

I enjoy the different directions into which fashion blogging is being pushed. Your recent collaboration with Caroline is proof enough of that.

Re: demotions. I get it. Somewhat related, did you read Cathy Horyn’s recent article on being banned? I thought she pegged it…or at least my interpretation was the conflict btwn designers who seek to control all that’s said about them (even by bloggers) as an inherent conflict of change resistance endemic to archaic industry practice.

I think your comment just got to me because I don’t want to be a journalist really, but I know I belong in media, though I don’t always know exactly how.

Plus, I did think the posts employed “interesting ways to comment and observe” and was especially “entertained” by the future fashion post… plus my friend wrote from Italy to say she laughed out loud, so, that makes two of us.

this is fashion. who is really reading anyway.

Oh, and this is my favourite bit from your post -
“No one needs to be hyper-critical just to seem honest. And no one needs to be fawning to be liked. Just be what you are and say what you think. Throw the dice high and let people make up their own minds about you. At the end of the day, the freebies are cheap and the parties kind of suck. You can buy your own shampoo and throw your own parties.”

Material Girl and Iron Chic – one thing that seems to be a constant is that the longer you get into something, the more complicated it becomes. Tasks that seemed easy as an outsider become a lot more difficult as you begin to understand the skills you are using.

For instance, back when I started drawing, I was usually pretty pleased with whatever drawing I came up with first. But now that I am doing it professionally, I will redo a drawing dozens of times and still see things about it that I think I could do better if I was more skilled. I am not sure why that is or if it is an improvement on the situation – certainly its a more stressful existence, but it seems like these feelings are unavoidable, at least for me.

I don’t have a problem being critical in my posts but I don’t understand the anonymous-commenter ripping other bloggers apart bullshit.

In a way I am not critical anymore because that kind of thing gets overplayed sometimes. I am more curious if I can come up with interesting ways to observe and comment that are descriptive and entertaining rather than just a critical review. That is just where I am at these days.