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Five LiveJournalers I Wish I Could Write Like

1. mollpeartree, while not the woman who brought me into online journaling, is the one who first showed me why it was worth doing. I always thought, Why would anyone what to read about my daily life?, which is boring, forgetting that I could write about my life of the mind, which isn't. (At least, not as much.) She may worry that the silence greeting her well-informed, handsomely-argued, thought-provoking essays on politics is a sign that people she her as a raving neocon loony, but I think they are really awed hushes as people realise that a suitable counterargument to the parts they disagree with would cost a lot more time, effort, and research than they're willing or able to give.
2. welcomerain is the woman who got me into LJ, the carrot in this trap being continued access to her hilarious work rants. I wish I could recount my mundane experiences with as much humour and verve. Her stream-of-consciousness reviews are so enjoyable, I've considered writing my own, but I think the imitation would end up as failure rather than flattery.
3. I joke about envying rollick's Friend list, but what I really envy is her ability to net so many comments. Must be her background as an interviewer, but she consistently gets more people to reveal more about themselves than anyone else I read here. While it was on hiatus, I actually had the hubris to try to incarnate her Monday Mini-Poll--needless to say, without a shadow of her success. I remember that when I consider posting fill-ins (Friday or not) of my own.
4. It could just be the lack of paragraphs, but every post by 0595 seems like it just poured out of his head that way. You'd think this would yield a disorganised mess of impressions and thoughts, but, somehow, when I try to pick it apart, I find a coherence and completeness I didn't know was there and even the most half-baked ideas come across as sincerely felt and appropriate in context.
5. princeofcairo has resumed his daily "100 words on each interest" project. That takes a kind of persistence, concision, and goal-orientedness I haven't ever had in a writing assignment that wasn't given to me by someone else. But what else would you expect from someone who make his living by writing?

So there's my goal for the New Year: To make my entries as educated as mollpeartree's, as entertaining as welcomerain's, as engaging as rollick's, as spontaneous as 0595, and as disciplined as princeofcairo's. Child's play, right?