January books: 4/4 (Love’s a Witch)
You know how long I’ve had this blog, squider? 15 and a half years. That’s an insane amount of time to do anything, really. This blog is older than my children. Ha!
Like any longer running project, it’s gone through cycles. I definitely spent a long while writing more authoritative posts–here’s how you do this, here’s what this means, here’s a long write-up about some aspect of writing. (My character archetype posts are still some of the most popular posts I’ve done to this day.) I spent some time doing a lot of Landsquid related things–drawings, short stories, guest posts from other writers. I’ve shared story aspects and vulnerabilities, good times and bad, write ups about conventions and conferences, written parts of my nonfiction books here first.
There’s always an aspect of “is this working” that runs in the background when I post. Do people like when I share stories? Do they appreciate when I share my hardships or successes? ARE YOU ENTERTAINED and whanot.
I haven’t shared a lot of work, traditionally, aside from the Landsquid things, because of a couple of reasons: 1) I’m not always brave enough to put something out for other people to see, especially if it hasn’t been edited and beta’ed, and 2) the idea of writing stories for the blog sometimes feels…unfocused. Like, it’s taking away from other projects that I should be focusing on.
But I do revisit the idea from time to time. Would people like stories? Or would it be like shouting out into the void?
I feel like the blog has been a bit of a downer lately. Yes, the world sucks and terrible things are happening everyday, and it is hard to create in such an environment, and I’m not in a place in my life where I can create as easily or as much as I have done in other times, but when even I am sick of my own moping, that’s saying something.
So maybe it is time to try something new.
Nothing’s clear yet, but the wheels are turning. Maybe we take the best of the morning pages for the week and add a little sketch to go along with them. Maybe we do a prompt challenge once a month.
We shall ponder. But let me know what you think, squiders, if you have opinions. Has there been cycles here at the blog you’ve liked better than other ones?
See you later this week! Maybe with answers!
