---
title: 'Things I Wish I Had Written, Part 1'
date: '2003-09-09T08:56:31-04:00'
permalink: /things-i-wish-i-had-written-part-1/
tags:
    - networks
---

From [Rory](http://speedysnail.com/2003/09.html#victorian "speedysnail") comes the Victorian Boy’s Guide to Blogging. Go forth and read it yourself, with the first verse below to entice you:

> The nicely tended weblog  
> Should every rise and ebb log  
> Of its author’s ever-changing mood:  
> His transient obsessions  
> And Rousseau-like confessions;  
> And once or twice a link just might intrude.  
> Choose your subject well,  
> And then proceed to tell  
> Everything you know: about, say, Food.  
> A dozen posts should do–  
> Then on to pastures new.  
> It matters not, provided it’s not lewd.  
> *(What’s that? See here now, sir,  
> Don’t cater to one browser;  
> It doesn’t matter how on earth it’s viewed.)*

About what follows — well, let me just say that there’s a gorgeous a/nother enjambment in verse two that absolutely set my heart a-flutter.