Practice

I’ve been thinking about blogging more, not for exposure or for reach, but more just for practice. I’m working on a long piece of fiction at the moment and while I’m enjoying it, the monolithic nature of it’s starting to feel a little bit oppressive.

I considered opening a micro.blog account, as I quite like its combination of social features and microblogging. It’s $5 a month, though, and I know that’s not much but I’m really trying not to get any new subscriptions at the moment.

Similarly, Write.As is a nice barebones text publishing service, but I think it doesn’t quite do what I want it to. I think I’m looking for a notebook/scrapbook as well as a log of what I’m doing, seeing and reading.

Honestly, Tumblr is the only social media service I’ve ever really liked using, but I’ve never really felt a kinship with the community there. There are several artists I like that post regularly, but I’m at something of a loss as to what to post there.

Blogging with Squarespace always feels a bit janky (particularly with Firefox, which I’m using at the moment), but I’ll see how it goes.

This feed was previously known as ‘log’ and featured my daily routine of what I’ve done. That sort of fell by the wayside. I’m rebranding it as ‘notes’ and hoping that it will replace some of what I use services like Bear or Are.na for - namely collecting things that I find interesting or might want to refer to later.