Endings and Beginnings
12 Mar 2023 05:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackbirdleeI haven't used DreamWidth in roughly a decade, but it feels so much like coming home.
I spent a lot of formative years on this platform, and on LiveJournal. I'm not going to link my old accounts here - for one thing, they're absolutely full of embarrassing stuff that I wrote years and years ago - but I might see if I can log back into those old accounts and link here from there, just in case anyone's still looking for me.
Or maybe not. Sometimes a clean break can be a good thing.
My goal with this blog is to put myself out there more. To reach out to readers who want to hear from me more often than once a month, and have a way you can talk back to me, and talk to each other. I know the standard way to do that these days is with Twitter, or Facebook, or even Discord; but I simply do not enjoy modern social media. Using Twitter or Facebook feels like trying to decipher alien technology. I do enjoy Discord, but the idea of running my own server on a real-time chat client is...intimidating. Maybe I will have a Discord server some day! But for now, I'll start with something that feels familiar. Something that I'm excited to use. And that's DreamWidth.
I'm going to aim to post at least once a week. I think I'll include some word-count stats in every post, because I've been keeping a running word-count spreadsheet this year and I love it. I'm equal parts math nerd and writing nerd, and it turns out that watching the numbers go up is very motivating for me.
And, since this isn't being delivered directly into people's inboxes (unlike my newsletter), I'll feel free to get a little more personal. There are some things I'd like to talk about without feeling like I'm chasing people down and stuffing that information into their email, you know? If nothing else, I'll be able to post my visual art here, and I don't often feel like I can put that stuff in my newsletter.
I'm excited. I gotta go tweak my blog style now.
Monthly words to date (March): 13,754
Annual words to date (2023): 84,603
Dinner tonight is: leftover Chinese food and some homemade chocolate chip walnut cookies.
I spent a lot of formative years on this platform, and on LiveJournal. I'm not going to link my old accounts here - for one thing, they're absolutely full of embarrassing stuff that I wrote years and years ago - but I might see if I can log back into those old accounts and link here from there, just in case anyone's still looking for me.
Or maybe not. Sometimes a clean break can be a good thing.
My goal with this blog is to put myself out there more. To reach out to readers who want to hear from me more often than once a month, and have a way you can talk back to me, and talk to each other. I know the standard way to do that these days is with Twitter, or Facebook, or even Discord; but I simply do not enjoy modern social media. Using Twitter or Facebook feels like trying to decipher alien technology. I do enjoy Discord, but the idea of running my own server on a real-time chat client is...intimidating. Maybe I will have a Discord server some day! But for now, I'll start with something that feels familiar. Something that I'm excited to use. And that's DreamWidth.
I'm going to aim to post at least once a week. I think I'll include some word-count stats in every post, because I've been keeping a running word-count spreadsheet this year and I love it. I'm equal parts math nerd and writing nerd, and it turns out that watching the numbers go up is very motivating for me.
And, since this isn't being delivered directly into people's inboxes (unlike my newsletter), I'll feel free to get a little more personal. There are some things I'd like to talk about without feeling like I'm chasing people down and stuffing that information into their email, you know? If nothing else, I'll be able to post my visual art here, and I don't often feel like I can put that stuff in my newsletter.
I'm excited. I gotta go tweak my blog style now.
Monthly words to date (March): 13,754
Annual words to date (2023): 84,603
Dinner tonight is: leftover Chinese food and some homemade chocolate chip walnut cookies.