When you stop growing you start dying.
William S. Burroughs, Junky
Short post tonight, been a long week.
Last week I put up the “What the hell was I thinking” schedule, and those of you that checked it might have noticed that I had plan to figure out what else to do on this site. I’ve made no secret that the point of this at the onset was to allow myself to get past the fear of being read and hyper-focus on editing, and I think by now I can allow myself the grace to say I’ve accomplished that goal. Primarily focusing on broader philosophical topics also tends to run out of juice rather quickly – when you boil things down to their essences, it turns out a lot of topics have the same roots.
So, now that I’ve claimed victory in the initial cause, where does that lead me? Well, I don’t want to back away from the site. I thought that might happen once I got over things, but now I’ve come to understand its importance for building a bit of a following to help find agents. Which means I need to do just that. And that is where I’ll be focusing.
I’m still batting around ideas, but on the short list are:
- Continuing the weekly article, but expanding the topics to include reviews of things I’m reading, watching, or playing.
- Starting a choose-your-own-adventure community-led web series.
- Restarting the 30-Day Projects group I once ran on Facebook, but centralizing it here.
- Setting up a forum for general discussion (And for use in the above point)
- Adding better structure, categorization, and layout to the site in general.
Each of these are near and dear to me, but some are clearly more effort than others. With everything going on over the next few months I expect a very small amount of this peek its head out before the end of the year, but I’ll be trying regardless. When things are on the move, you’ll be the first to know.
That’s all for this week. Hope you all are living your best lives. Keep bettering yourselves.
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