Back to this

After returning to this this before, I never took the time to explore, see what this is.

Anyway, I was listening to The Steal Like an Artist Audio Trilogy by Austin Kleon and pondering what he says about blogging, I think in one of the Show Your Work segments, and I thought, "I got a lot out of blogging for a lot of the time I was doing it. Some external, but certainly a significant amount was just for myself."

It was in my head, so it was weirder and ramblier than that, but that's what it boiled down to.

I'm going to make a point of writing here more, so I can find out what it is. If I don't come all of the time, it'll never develop into anything. It'll just be a space, where I occasionally dump stuff.

I might, in that process, dig out old Facebook posts or tweetstorms, edit them into something for posterity or for a medium I'm perhaps better at.

Twitter, @rotfg_neil, I'm particularly ill-suited to somehow. Now, I could complain that nothing I do gets any traction at all and you could think "Maybe it's you, asshole." And I'm mostly not inclined to fully disagree, but I also know that I get way more traction other places. Sometimes the exact same people that respond well to me on Facebook, miss it on Twitter. It might be how my voice plays on the medium or how my words affect it's algorithm. Fuck if I know.

I don't really care either, although I don't know a way to write it that doesn't sound potentially petulant and insincere.

I do find it... interesting.

As I'm sure I've said, the one thing I don't want this to be is a place that I'm trying to prove I can write. Every time I found myself doing that at the old blog, I'd write things I didn't like as much and my writing got worse. I'm sure there are lots of people who could overcome that particular irony, but I'm not one of them, nor am, at this point in my life, that interested in any suggestions for how I might, but thanks for thinking of them on my behalf... and then thanks for not bothering to pass them on.

UPDATE: Facebook has decided that this page here is "spam". It has, of course, provided no evidence of this claim and it seems sketchy on the face of it, but I have no real love for this site at this point either. For now, it's allowing my Tumblr, so I might post there for now.

The Tumblr version of this post here can be found at this link.