There will be cross-posting, I warn you now.
Who’s to say what is the right way and what is not? After all, log onto any search engine or social media tool and do a quick query for blogging advice and it all revolves around these vague concepts of user engagement and click-thrus and follower counts and blah-blah-blah…
So few people are writing about the zen of writing. I even fall into that trap myself sometimes. I just write about what I think other people want to read, rather than writing about what I want to write about.
I have a laundry list of other sites where I post.
You may even know about some of them.
I have a place where I write about art. I write about art when I do art, and then sometimes I don’t do much art at all, or I don’t feel like being all that introspective about my art, so I just don’t write about it.
I have a blog for my video game. I’m making a video game. Did I mention that yet? Oh, maybe you already know that. I am coding a real-to-goodness video game in real-to-goodness code with art and music and ideas. Oh, the ideas. And I write about that when I hit milestones.
I have a professional blog. I’m not that good at writing about myself as a professional, though. It is a lot of words about learning to learn and thinking to think and working to be better at working, or something, I don’t even know half the time. I am doing it to try to parse out the bits of my brain that think I might still have something to contribute to a business world. Is that working?
I want to write more about just stuff. You know. Stuff. About travel and the dog and some book that I read that felt good and oh, did you know I sat on the couch and played this video game for a while and it was fun and mindless and no I didn’t learn any deep and abiding lessons from it, but it was how I spent my day and so I want to write about it?
This is just a blog.
I have blogged for half my life now. And that’s almost literally true. I say that because on June 27, 2025 that will be literally true, to the day. Wow.
So here I am, resurrecting this notion of a random writing blog. And I’m going to write in it. And I’m going to cross-post into and from it. And some days it will be about nothing at all.
And that’s the zen of it. Warned yet?
