Hello! Going to try for posts once a week, or as often as I can come up with them. I'd like to do both longer posts and collections of shorter thoughts.
I've never successfully run a blog for more than a couple of posts before, unless you count microblogging (I do not), so will be interesting to see how this goes.
Some initial thoughts:
I've never successfully run a blog for more than a couple of posts before, unless you count microblogging (I do not), so will be interesting to see how this goes.
Some initial thoughts:
- Lots of things I may want to write about, from more personal to more hobby-related. I won't limit myself to any one type of post.
- I'm going to see if I stick with this before I share it around, if I share it around. I may keep it to myself.
- Unsure if I can change language settings on one post at a time, but if I can, and maybe even if I can't, I'd like to make some posts in Japanese as well. It's my second language and I want to practice.
- The email function is very neat, but the real draw of Pagecord for me was its simplicity. I considered Bear, too, because it's cool that you can change the CSS, but I think I would spend time doing that instead of writing.
My goal for this blog...well, I think blogs are cool, I want to be cool, and I want to spend less time on microblogging platforms—even Mastodon, which is far better than most of them. Assuming it's possible, I want to retrain my attention span away from scanning and skimming and one-sentence posts, towards longer-form writing. Barely finished any novels in the last few years, and I'm fed up with it, so I'll start with an RSS feed and maybe some short stories, and work my way up.
If you don't read, you don't get better at writing, as I've learned through experience, and as is true for most (all?) artistic mediums. Hard to be inspired by, um, nothing. With that in mind, I want to look for interesting writing on the internet and elsewhere, and may share what I find here as well. That would be another fun type of post to do.
That's the gist, I guess. Do I need a signoff? ...I'll workshop it.