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Welcome to Words, my umpteenth blog. I’m your host, Laura.
For a few reasons, I’m ripping the bandaid off on the decision that may have stopped this project in its tracks: I’m writing with my real name and under the branding of my professional website. I typically avoid this out of fear that my personal thoughts will sabotage my professional goals. However, my blogs have never yet interfered with my professional life, and I doubt things will change very much in the future. And if it does, maybe it’s not the worst thing in the world that I expose myself.
Let’s get this show on the road!
I am going to establish a better public writing habit. I say public because I typically write time to time in a journal, but in recent years have slacked in writing publicly. I want this to change because I feel the exposure will be pressure to develop, but can also be a better means of connecting with others. I’ve tried this in the past, attempting to stick to a weekly habit, but I think I lacked structure. This time I will structure my writing around topics that I find very interesting. I haven’t decided the days to write which yet, but here are the topics I am thinking of:
- Politics and Gender
- Vegan life: Recipes and Restaurant reviews
- Culture: Music and/or Film reviews
- Life: Career, academic, artistic, relationship, and ambition driven prose
- Portfolio post
To be fair, only the top four categories entail writing something new. I will also use this blog to consolidate my previous art portfolios. No meager task, but I will dedicate an upcoming weekend to importing some work from the past few years. I won’t dedicate posts to those unless a given week is very slow and I have nothing new to contribute. I do not intend on making a habit of that.
This particular post falls under the “Life” category. Now, most people are clever and begin blogs on the first day of the year. I’m not very clever sometimes, but I will blame my slightly late start due to a case of sinusitis that made my first days of 2013 less than fun. I will begin a proper writing schedule on Monday of next week, but will throw in a post or two leading up to that first official day of programming. I have also played with the idea of video entries, which is too easy for me to do with my mobile toys for me have any excuse not to (of course the excuse not to is “I don’t look good today!”).
This will be fun.
