Well bunkie, do you sometimes have a little trouble generating interest in your prolific prose? Or perhaps your little posting has ignited an unanticipated firestorm of comments. (Can you say "pie"?) Or perhaps your reasoning has been deemed, shall we say, faulty. Have you had any bombs?
Well, join me then and share some of your diary disasters. Unloved, ignored or firestorm, set forth your story below.
To me, posting a diary is something like standing naked before the world. You are totally vulnerable to the whims of others. You may not recognize my user name, but I've been here since early in 2005. I've had the "opportunity" to incite at least one smaller firestorm. I couldn't wait for it to scroll off into the ether, cringing behind my monitor shortly after the comments started. At other times I've been largely ignored. I've also had a few that were genuinely appreciated,
for which I am thankful. Kossacks are tough critics. Like most, I've never hit the recommended list.
Okay, I'll start. My biggest disaster was this 1749 word "tribute" to our local nukular power facility, Indian Point.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/5/26/20460/8371 I live about 7 miles away and it had been on my mind. The facility has had the worst safety record of any such facility in the country. I wrote this diary combining source material and some emotional content. It was apparently not a successful blend. My lengthy effort yielded a scant 5 comments, 2 of which were mine and one of which said essentially, please go away now. (That I'm choosing to voluntarily relive this
experience is some indication of my diminished mental state.) Needless to say, I was not bragging about it but I kept posting diaries. And I will continue.
Please don't flame if you deem this not to be appropriate diary material. Just ask and I will delete it. But I thought that after this rather long week we could share some diary bombs for fun and therapeutic purposes. Your turn.