I spent a lot of time writing
daily posts about random things when this blog started. I have posted some neat art, funny comics,
political commentary, NaNoWriMo information, and the occasional writing post
related to writing/my projects. I ran full tilt for a while last year, blogging
an average of something like 1.3 posts a day between June and December. Daily posts, NaNo info, and my NaNo journal
make up the bulk of my posts.
When my computer decided to crash back in January, it came
about just as I started a new job. Prior to that, I was unemployed so I had all
the time in the world to blog, research, write, and generally waste time on the
internet. Since then, I have posted a little over 60 posts as a result. Not
great. I’m averaging less than 1 per day, and that is only because I have
random spurts of 2-3 posts in a day. I decided to dig deep and find out the
real reason why I am not posting as much now compared to last year. The reason
is this: I would rather be writing. Yes, blogging is writing, but it isn’t the
kind of writing I would like to do, so I haven't been as good about it lately. My entire blog is a mashup of various ideas
with no cohesiveness or clarity of thought. If you came to this page today and
browsed the blog posts on the left, I highly doubt you would know that this is
a blog for a writer trying to build a platform. It is exactly as the sub-title
describes: random.
I am going to try to make an effort to clean that up a
little bit by focusing on more writing and less random. This is just a trial
like everything else so we’ll see how it goes. So what am I going to blog
about? No, I’m not going to blather on about “buy my book” over and over again.
I am still abjectly against that. But I am going to blog about my life as a
writer. I just posted a blog about Twitter hashtags and have decided to
streamline my posts into similar categories. Check it out:
