Trying again for regular blog updates
Mar. 2nd, 2014 11:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I'm going to at least halfheartedly try blogging again.
Back in the old, busy days of Livejournal, I blogged because I needed to. I was still living with my parents, struggling to understand my sexuality, and hiding all of my interests from ridicule. I won't say I'm 100% better, but I do have different priorities. Positive encouragement has done a great job of helping me be more open about who I am and what I like. So I don't necessarily need a secret place to go pour all of my bottled-up self anymore.
But it would be nice to write every day again. Just re-establishing the habit of writing regularly could help me get past some major stumbling blocks in my fiction. Besides just sitting down and writing the damn fiction already.
So here goes. I will be checking DW more regularly while the SPN/TW kink meme is going on, which means I'll remember this is here. With any luck I'll have a little habit established again soon.
The other thing about blogging here is that content is relatively easy to lock down, in as much as anything on the internet ever is. It's more time-consuming for someone to take my posts here, add their own opinion or condemnation, and spread them. Tumblr, unfortunately, reinforced the belief that I needed to keep things hidden unless I was prepared to let everyone have a venue to come at me. Don't get me wrong, I still like Tumblr, but I'd like to have a little more control over my personal content than I do there. I'd also like to engage more in dialog rather than have people I don't know talk AT me, in a venue that makes it almost impossible to respond without feeling like I'm just trying to get more attention.
Meh.
So, blog.
Back in the old, busy days of Livejournal, I blogged because I needed to. I was still living with my parents, struggling to understand my sexuality, and hiding all of my interests from ridicule. I won't say I'm 100% better, but I do have different priorities. Positive encouragement has done a great job of helping me be more open about who I am and what I like. So I don't necessarily need a secret place to go pour all of my bottled-up self anymore.
But it would be nice to write every day again. Just re-establishing the habit of writing regularly could help me get past some major stumbling blocks in my fiction. Besides just sitting down and writing the damn fiction already.
So here goes. I will be checking DW more regularly while the SPN/TW kink meme is going on, which means I'll remember this is here. With any luck I'll have a little habit established again soon.
The other thing about blogging here is that content is relatively easy to lock down, in as much as anything on the internet ever is. It's more time-consuming for someone to take my posts here, add their own opinion or condemnation, and spread them. Tumblr, unfortunately, reinforced the belief that I needed to keep things hidden unless I was prepared to let everyone have a venue to come at me. Don't get me wrong, I still like Tumblr, but I'd like to have a little more control over my personal content than I do there. I'd also like to engage more in dialog rather than have people I don't know talk AT me, in a venue that makes it almost impossible to respond without feeling like I'm just trying to get more attention.
Meh.
So, blog.
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Date: 2014-03-02 06:14 pm (UTC)And welcome back to the journalsphere. :)
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Date: 2014-03-02 06:37 pm (UTC)Thank you for the warm welcome! I feel pretty sheepish about abandoning Dreamwidth since I was so happy it offered me an escape from Livejournal, but then, it's social media. We all do it at some point?
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Date: 2014-03-02 06:46 pm (UTC)I am definitely guilty of forgetting I have a DW for months at a time. Or I remember, but just don't have anything to say. It happens, but I'm always glad to see someone come back.
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Date: 2014-03-02 07:05 pm (UTC)I like blog formats like DW so much better for dialog because we can do exactly what we're doing now: trade back and forth without forcing me to make a new post for every exchange, all of which become public domain and any one exchange can be taken out of context and reblogged by anyone else at any time.
I really think people are mostly afraid to have meaningful exchanges on Tumblr BECAUSE it's such a damned public venue. And what Tumblr is now is the result of that.
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Date: 2014-03-02 07:20 pm (UTC)In conclusion, I would much rather have conversations in a format where anyone can chime in but it's still coherent, rather than any real content buried under soundbites and likes. *high fives you*
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Date: 2014-03-02 07:10 pm (UTC)<3
I do not tumblr for lots of reasons, but you named most of 'em.
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Date: 2014-03-05 07:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-03-05 10:43 pm (UTC)HI! +snugs you tight+
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Date: 2014-03-07 12:18 am (UTC)