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+title: 'Last Season, on Planned Obsolescence'
+date: '2012-08-21T08:36:17-04:00'
+permalink: /last-season-on-planned-obsolescence/
+tags:
+    - blogging
+    - writing
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+One key problem with the blog as a platform for serial scholarship is that it’s much too easy to find yourself interrupted, to lose a train of thought.
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+Then again, this is a key problem with having a day job in general: that train of thought, whatever it was you were working on outside the bounds of the day job, always runs the risk of getting utterly derailed.
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+*Oh, I’ve just got to get caught back up with what’s going on in the office*, you say, *and then I’ll get right back to that series I was working on*.
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+But there’s that one upcoming deadline that has to be met yet, and that’s got to take priority. And there are the other many small details that manage to create a very convincing set of distractions.
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+One great thing about non-serial scholarship — the feature release, perhaps — is that its process of production, its fits and starts, are hidden from public view.
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+On the other hand, nobody’s really waiting for that feature release. And one can at least hope that gaps in one’s serial production — a little between-season hiatus, perhaps — might help to build anticipation.
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+I am hoping that this doesn’t require cliffhanger endings.
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