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selenicseasI didn’t do much actual blogging in 2024. Most of what I posted was monthly overviews, recommendation posts, and plenty of posts from previous years, which thus don’t show up in the 2024 archive. This is pretty abnormal for me; I did plenty of blogging from 2012-2014, slowed down massively from 2015-2020, and then made tons of posts from 2021-2023. Then in the beginning of 2024, I left Wordpress and basically stopped blogging.
I don’t think I was burnt out on blogging. I think I was just tired of having to move from yet another website that was no longer a safe place to host my stuff. I’ve since found a new home for long-form blog posts in Dreamwidth. I’m happy here, even though I’m still learning how to use the interface after almost a year.
I definitely want Dreamwidth to be a place primarily for long-form blogging – as opposed to Pillowfort, which is for short-form stuff – and I want it to be a place I use just as much as Pillowfort. I’m not sure that can happen, as short posts are much easier and quicker to write than longer ones, but I still want to try.
In my Wordpress years, I tried to make one post per week, typically on Fridays. I’m going to try that again this year. Maybe I won’t have a post on Friday, but I’ll try to have something up here every week that isn’t a recommendation post or monthly overview.
I don’t think I was burnt out on blogging. I think I was just tired of having to move from yet another website that was no longer a safe place to host my stuff. I’ve since found a new home for long-form blog posts in Dreamwidth. I’m happy here, even though I’m still learning how to use the interface after almost a year.
I definitely want Dreamwidth to be a place primarily for long-form blogging – as opposed to Pillowfort, which is for short-form stuff – and I want it to be a place I use just as much as Pillowfort. I’m not sure that can happen, as short posts are much easier and quicker to write than longer ones, but I still want to try.
In my Wordpress years, I tried to make one post per week, typically on Fridays. I’m going to try that again this year. Maybe I won’t have a post on Friday, but I’ll try to have something up here every week that isn’t a recommendation post or monthly overview.
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