Writing the Ship in the New Year

tyunglebower ♦ December 31, 2023 ♦ Leave a comment

Happy (soon) New Year. Not so happy pun, but it is what it is.

As 2023 comes to a close, my mind for at least a few minutes, enters into the same thought process as most do at this time of year; what do I want the New Year to bring?

Plenty.

But for the purposes of this site, I will mention only what pertains to this site. Namely, it will be in essence rededicated.

In likelihood, and regular reader will notice little difference. It is mostly a content decisions that I made long ago and put mostly into practice this year already. Henceforth, posts will focus solely on writing and the writer’s life. Plus I will post smaller pieces such as stories or other creative writing that I want somewhere, but it not really a fit, or practical enough for my to self publish as a stand aloe book, nor to submit to publications. Knowing they will have a definitive home will hopefully encourage me to write more of them.

The ascetic will mostly be the same. Colors, template, all of that sort of thing. But I will be ridding the site of some of the extra bells and whistles, that I increasingly stepped away from over the last few years. That process has already begun, as astute observers may have noticed.

I will use search keywords for meta data for the barest of SEO activity, but I will no longer make use of “categories” for specific posts, and will have fully dispense with that menu soon. It felt like the perfect thing to do when I started my website, when I foolishly thought I would have many more readers than I do, and that the key in making that happen was writing on multiple topics on a regular basis. (The previous incarnation of this site, which you can still see entries of, was a blood dedicated to my “unusual” thinking, or being “too xyz” for the world….a condition I later learned was in fact my Autism.)

Now I prefer to take a somewhat more focused approach to my content, and the most logical facet of my life, (now that I have spent the better part of this year writing about Autistic traits within the writer’s mind) is writing itself. 

To have been keeping a website for so many years only to contract as opposed to expand may go against the expected trajectory of the internet. But when have I followed the expected directory, especially as a result of mere expectations?

The “My Books” page on this site, though it may get a visual overall at some point, will remain, with UBLs to direct people where to buy them.

So, here’s to a step back of sorts in order to spring forward further. This site will now officially be what perhaps it always should have been all along: focused on my thoughts on writing, and pieces of writing itself.

Happy New Year, and happy writing. See you in 2024.