It’s been a long time since I’ve sat down to write. So long, in fact, that I just noticed my 2020 blog notebook is empty, even though it’s already September. There are a lot of reasons for this, and they all boil down to “I haven’t made time”. When I look back to when I was writing regularly (not just the scattered posts of last summer) and further back to when I was posting regularly, I have to ask myself what the difference is. Then, I laugh, because there are a lot of differences.
There is, of course, that the world is different now.
Hey all – as you may have noticed, there has been somewhat less content over the last few weeks compared to my normal writing cadence. This is not so much a lack of things to write about, but more that I haven’t been making as much time to write (between vacations, visiting family, and other goings-on). That being said, it is my plan to get some words out about a number of movies I’ve watched recently, the book I just finished reading, and another bit about something that’s been bouncing around in my head. Regular writing will resume just as soon as I can get back to a regular life cadence.
As I’ve been writing the last few months, I’ve noticed a very particular pattern about my posts: most of them are entirely text. It took me a bit to notice this, and, in fact, my Gamerstable blog was the wake-up call. That entry made it live without a single hyperlink. I noticed it later when I reread that entry and said to myself, “I just spent a whole blog entry talking about my favorite podcast, and I never once linked to it… …That is a problem.”
This, I think, is the result of two factors of my writing. First, as I’ve mentioned before, I write on my bus ride to work where I do not have internet access. Second, my personal style is to say things with words rather than other expressive elements. Continue reading Blogs with Text→
So, it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything on my blog, but I am still here. I thought I would post a little snippet, as I was thinking very hard about why I don’t just blog, and I realized that it’s hard for me to write for a couple of reasons. Continue reading Still Here, Doing, Not Writing→
This year, my New Year’s Resolution was to get WordPress up and running, and replacing PivotX as my primary blogging software. Tada! I did this yesterday, and now I can wash my hands of doing WordPress installations for now. If you want to know why “WordPress installations” is plural, read on…
