A New Post!

I wrote something a year and a half ago. It was interesting enough, really, but then I wrote this really long post about how scared I was to write any more posts, and then I stopped writing altogether. Scared myself out of it. Like anyone was actually going to read it.

My friend Angel once told me that the key to successful blogging is to pick a topic and (for the most part) stick with it. That makes good sense – the blogs I read on a regular basis are all consistent from post to post within themselves. For the most part.

So I kept thinking about that and trying to decide what subject my blog could be about. But you know what? I don’t have anything. And you know why? Because that’s not the kind of person I am. Not that I’m inconsistent. I pretty much like the same things all the time, even if it is in a kind of unpredictable cycle (more like the shape of one of those Spirograph drawings than a plain old circle).

Remember these?

But I like a lot of things, and they don’t always connect with each other very well. And I definitely don’t like any one of them enough to write about them every day, or a few times a week, or even once a week, most likely. In addition to that, I tend to have pretty weird and/or ridiculous thoughts, and wonder about and research pretty random things.

After putting some thought into all this, I came to a conclusion: if I want to write stuff, I will. And I shouldn’t care about being successful with it, because I won’t be. That’s not defeatist, it’s just the way things are. Little fish in a big pond, or whatever they say.

So whether it be to your delight or your chagrin, the only thing my entries will have in common from one to the next is that they’ll have travelled from my brain to my fingers to the screen.

Oh, and another thing: I’ll write whenever I damn well feel like it, be it ten times a day or once every two months. I’m crazy like that.