Full Throttle and F**k It

When it comes time for me to write a review for The Ris­ing Blog­ger, I often check to see if a reader or past win­ner nom­i­nated a post. I’d love to say it is because that I want to be sure that Judd keeps up with nom­i­na­tions in our queue, but it is gen­er­ally because I can be lazy. Judd gen­er­ally gives me the nom­i­na­tions to deal with because I write the most reviews.

So when I read a nom­i­nated post I have no idea what to expect. I won’t write a review if the post sucks. But usu­ally the nom­i­na­tions range from good to extremely great. Today’s post is in that “extremely great” cat­e­gory. Steve Mal­ley is a writer and an artist who is from New Zealand. I assume the draw­ing of him on this page is a self por­trait. I am not qual­i­fied to judge art. I am qual­i­fied to judge writ­ing, and Steve is excel­lent. The title of the post is Wells Filled and Oth­er­wise. In it he attempts to explain what a writer means by “fill­ing the well” or “drain­ing it”.

Some posts drip with insight and this is one of them. Steve writes, “The idea seems to be that cre­ativ­ity is a cool liq­uid, of which we drink deeply. Some­times, a project can leave us feel­ing drained. Times like that, we need to stop drink­ing and let oth­ers’ waters replen­ish our own. At least, I think that’s the idea. It’s one of those things folks tend to talk about as though every­one else already knows. I’ve had to pick the metaphor up on the run.”

That’s just the begin­ning. You will have to go to the blog Full Throt­tle and F**K It to learn the rest of Steve’s ideas. I know you will really like Steve’s blog and his post from Jan­u­ary 16, 2008 that is our Post of the Day.

Review writ­ten by BUD WEISER.