What’s Next? – December 25, 2021

Photographs: spwilcen

Where next for the “blog”?

It was never my intention to blog.  My blogging, if you call it that, started to support fiction works.  The idea was to get a larger audience to read and constructively comment. I’d either grow as a writer or learn a new trade.  Truth of it, failing, find something else to do on retirement. A new trade would come in handy in that case, eh?

Another “writers’” site before WordPress declared itself a craft development tool.  The site, I think for the number of children who joined and monopolized it, deteriorated into a tittering social sham.  For my purposes, a dismal failure.  Corresponding with a site principal when asked why I was leaving, I learned the creators were similarly frustrated.  They promised changes.  I didn’t stick around to see how that turned-out.

Granted, some find my writing cryptic or arcane.  Three readers, and two fellow bloggers suggested I try audio blog content. That has appeal.  Oral presentation adds inflection, pauses, and vernacular most readers can’t “read,” makes things make sense.  Or make more sense.  It’s wishful thinking to look for real understanding. That I’m not at once and completely understood is a shortcoming on my part.

There’s ego-stroking in print. There’d be more ego-stroking being “on the air.” 

Audio – plug-in, audio clips, or podcasting – sounds like a lot of work and some out-of-pocket expense.  Don’t mind the work.  Expense, on the other hand, is a bother.

It would be nice to financially break-even or make a buck in the deal.  Partnering and “associate” schemes leave me cold.  Doesn’t leave much but publishing, no more freebies.

I should drop the blog and its creative baggage?  Focus on publishing? Gee, focus on writing? What a novel idea!

Or learn to weld?

Nothing is out of the question.  Until this relo is complete, I just don’t know.

Circa 1966. That worked okay. Career change? Gotta find another matchbook.