"Fruit salad is good" seems to be the universal response of my friends to my desire to start two separate blogs on my area of professional interest (comics and comparative Indo-European studies). But I still do feel a need to start separate fora for my articles on those two subjects. I've been reflecting on this impulse, and I suspect that my reason may not be clear to my friends, and rather counter-intuitive.
If you go through my archives, you will find that there is really very little on these subjects. Even on historical matters, any items on early IE matters are widely outnumbered by posts on other areas; and as for comics, I write a comics-based article a year, if so often. Last year I did not even mention my short but important study trip to Ceprano and Terracina, where I explored the areas where I believe Latin epic to have originally been set.
That actually even restricts the amount of work I do. If I write less, I research less. And yet, I have a personal problem with mixing research writing and my ordinary writing. It is absolutely instinctive with me to separate these things from "ordinary life". It even governs the shape of my flat: I have one room for living, sleeping and internet-surfing in, and one for study and drawing. I don't suppose everyone thinks the same way, but it is becoming clearer to me that to me this kind of separation is natural.
I am still not sure I will. I am behind with so many projects I can hardly see myself starting two more blogs. But I do feel a need to. If I ever do, however, I promise to place links and possibly cross-posts in this LJ.
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