In my earlier Statement Of Intention, I explained a bit about how the newly solidified direction of this site would impact some of the things I had been doing here previously, but it did not really lay out what I thought that direction was.
So, in order to clear the air, so to speak, I want to lay out some goals for this blog, so that you will understand what the heck it is exactly that I need to express. Some of what I intend to accomplish was outlined at the end of my first post on this site, and those goals stand - we are still dedicated to finding a way to pay our bills with our creative pursuits.
The biggest hurdle to actually doing this is to decide on what creative pursuits we want to concentrate on in order to accomplish that goal. For my part, I have decided that writing is going to be the largest, and potentially only, focus of my efforts to do so, and this blog is going to be central to some of the themes that I will be writing on, and that was the impetus for the first Statement of Intentions post. So here you go, as best as I can articulate them, my current goals with regards to writing and blogging:
As you know, I am ‘problogging’ for the LinuxWorldNet blog network already, covering Linux myths and misconceptions. That type of writing is a lot of fun, and I plan to continue to play investigative journalist/pundit over there, and hope to add another Linux related blog to the mix in the future.
I will also be working on tightening the focus of this blog down. I have decided that my focus here is drifting, and too many ancillary posts have been creeping in. I will be reigning in the sprawl, so to speak, and concentrating here solely on the theory and practice of what I have taken to calling Post-Industrial Neo-Pastoralism. I will be posting a complete explanation of what I mean by that in the next couple of days, but for now, it simply means that I want this blog to be more tightly focused on the why and how of what we are trying to accomplish here, instead of some sort of all-encompassing scratch-pad for whatever pops into my mind.
The tightening of focus here may necessitate that I start another blog at some point for all of my silly posts, and if I decide to do so, it will be linked to from here in case anyone outside of my family really wants to know my thoughts on hockey or see what weird websites I have discovered this week…
There you have it, some modest goals for my blogging and writing. I am sure that as the summer continues they will grow and mature into a more coherent picture, but for now, I am content to claim the title ‘writier’ for myself.
Tags: blogging
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I been trying to focus my blogs as well. The only things is that now I’m starting to get spread thin. I just want community appeal to each of the blogs I create.
I understand the feeling of being spread thin. There are so many things I want to do NOW, and so little of me to go around
Sometimes creative pursuits are too creative to pay the bills. The line between artist and freelancer or entrepreneuer is very thin.
Too creative to pay the bills.
So work that pays the bills can’t be too creative, it has to have something of the old Puritan atonement to it, huh? I disagree. There is no objective reason for what “pays the bills” to both be fun, and creative.
this is just a test