My Blogging Problem
TL;DR — Social media navel gazing about my love/hate relationship with blogging, all because I'm launching a new journal (not blog) at www.itsericwoodward.com/journal/.
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I have a problem with #blogging .
For a long time, I assumed that it was a time issue - I felt like I either didnāt have the time to do anything cool (which would give me something to blog about), or I felt like I didnāt have the time to blog about the few cool things that I did accomplish.
Then, when I did have some time, there would always be other reasons that I couldnāt write: Iād have issues with my blogging software (and wind up spend time either diagnosing it, fixing it, or looking for a replacement), or Iād get distracted updating the servers, or by a family issue, or any number of 100 other things.
But what makes it worse is my other problem: every few weeks, Iāll go on a tear where I get hyper-focused on a single topic or idea, and spend a large amount of my free time either researching it, attempting my hand at it, or both. And then, after a few weeks, Iāll inevitably move on to some other topic (something Les Orchard calls āSerial Enthusiasmā), and I wonāt take the time to document what I learned / accomplished during said tear.
Butā¦ no more.
This post represents the first in (what I hope will be) a series of journal entries about the various things that Iāve done and/or learned about in the few months/years/lives, in hopes of doing my own small part to develop the web. In addition to posting new items here, I also plan to (eventually) import most of my entries from my on-again-off-again Known instance (aka just in case something bad happens to it). Iāve got a few other ideas, too, but weāll see how industrious I am.
And, in order to break my blogging curse, this will not be called a blog, but rather a journal, and it will live at ItsEricWoodward.com/journal/.
So, I hope you enjoy my new journal, and if youāre already here, I say āThanks for stopping by, feel free to take a look around, but please donāt let the cats out.ā āŗ