Not really. I've had blogs before. Out of some masochistic instinct (or, more likely, ignorance), I once rented some server space and maintained a WordPress instance myself. Bots put me off that pretty quickly, so here I am on Blogger, relying on Google to keep the spam to a minimum. But I digress (at the beginning of the post. Not a good sign).
Relaunching my self-publishing on the Interwebs, I've decided to concentrate on the content instead of the technology. If Blogger as a platform is passe, so be it. I choose to not be distracted by the newest and shiniest platform as long as the one I'm using gets the job done.
Must be getting old.
Just Keep Drawing Writing
A lifetime ago, I drew a webcomic (do they still call them that?). I would link to it, but I let the domain name expire. When I was actively drawing, the sage advice to those with small readerships was "just keep drawing!" It's the only way to improve.
Not too long ago, when a Google search returned yet another Jeff Atwood Coding Horror blog entry, I followed some link chain and ended up on his 26 October 2007 post, of which I will give the executive summary after this colon: "Just keep writing."
Recently, in my physical mail, I got a sample magazine that kind of reminded me of the old Dr. Dobbs Journal, but wasn't really grabbing my attention because its focus was more on the Microsoft stack, and I currently operate in the Linux world. But the last article (what's with this trend of columns starting on the last page continuing on the previous page?) really spoke to me. Its author is Ted Neward, and it was titled, "On Liberal Arts". The gist of Lesson #2 in the article? You guessed it. "Just keep writing."
So here I am.
What's It All About?
I'm not entirely sure what I'm going to write about. That's not really the point. The point is to write. To become a better communicator.
And, maybe, to republish my old webcomic. Seems all the rage, lately.
And, maybe, draw some new ones. If my Wacom tablet still has drivers available, that is.
Finally: It's Talk Like a Pirate Day
Shiver me timbers! We be publishin' again! Aaaar!
