Earlier today, on a facebook group dedicated to bloggers, we were asked to post our favorite thing we have ever written, whether it was relevant to the general theme of the group or not. I did not post a link. I posted a 50 word piece of micro-fiction I wrote back when I was hosting a micro-fiction contest. But here is the thing, that question made me realize how long I have been doing this, how much I have written.<\/p>\n
I started on LiveJournal 11 years ago, and my first blog around 6 years ago. Between LJ and the blogs I still have access to, that is almost 3,000 posts. 3,000 posts. 11 years. That is a lot of writing. A lot of history.<\/p>\n
And none of this counts my actual fiction, or the poetry I wrote as a child and teen. When I say I cannot NOT write, I mean it. And yet, on nights like tonight, when I arrived at the coffee shop with no idea what I was going to write, it boggles my mind. I have no idea how I put out that much content. Right now I struggle to put out one post a week, maybe two. But according to the numbers, I have, on average, written 3 out of every 4 days for the last 11 years.<\/p>\n
Now, a lot of that content was not necessarily good content. I was thinking the other day that I have posted almost nothing about the dogs here on Alien Anthropologists, but I used to post twice a week on Life by Pets. What did I write about? I mean, I know I posted about the hard times \u2013 losing Moree, Smokey, and Howie. I wrote about finding Junebug and Larry. Those are good posts. But not all of the posts are good posts.\u00a0 There are also a lot of picture only posts on that site. I kind of miss taking as many pictures as I used to, but I used to go to the dog park with the camera around my neck nearly every day. Now, I go to the dog park maybe once a month, and the camera is almost always at home.<\/p>\n
Kind of the same with the personal finance blog. I tried to write on a schedule. I posted about keeping to my budget and goals every Sunday evening for like two years. Two other times a week I put out content. Some of it was good. Most of it was not.<\/p>\n
And looking back at all of this reminds me of why I move to this blog \u2013 my \u201cone true blog\u201d. I can post about anything I want \u2013 pets, finances, parenting, fiction, etc. And that means that most of the content is better content than it was on the other blogs. It is not all perfect (see this post) because I still try to get one post a week up, and I do not always have something profound to say.<\/p>\n
But just like I pulled over all of my book reviews from 100 Words On, maybe I will start pulling over some of the better posts from the old blogs. I cannot read my old writing without making edits, seeing way to make it better, so I will certainly do that. But yeah. I have 3,000 posts worth of history to draw from. Why not mine it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Earlier today, on a facebook group dedicated to bloggers, we were asked to post our favorite thing we have ever written, whether it was relevant to the general theme of the group or not. I did not post a link. I posted a 50 word piece of micro-fiction I wrote back when I was hosting a micro-fiction contest. But here is the thing, that question made me realize how long I have been doing this, how much I have written. I started on LiveJournal 11 years ago, and my first blog around 6 years ago. Between LJ and the blogs I still have access to, that is almost 3,000 posts. 3,000 posts. 11 years. That is a lot of writing. A lot of history. And none of this counts my actual fiction, or the poetry I wrote as a child and teen. When I say I cannot NOT write, I mean it. And yet, on nights like tonight, when I arrived at the coffee shop with no idea what I was going to write, it boggles my mind. I have no idea how I put out that much content. Right now I struggle to put out one post a week, maybe two. But according to the numbers, I have, on average, written 3 out of every 4 days for the last 11 years. Now, a lot of that content was not necessarily good content. I was thinking the other day that I have posted almost nothing about the dogs here on Alien Anthropologists, but I used to post twice a week on Life by Pets. What did I write about? I mean, I know I posted about the hard times \u2013 losing Moree, Smokey, and Howie. I wrote about finding Junebug and Larry. Those are good posts. But not all of the posts are good posts.\u00a0 There are also a lot of picture only posts on that site. I kind of miss taking as many pictures as I used to, but I used to go to the dog park with the camera around my neck nearly every day. Now, I go to the dog park maybe once a month, and the camera is almost always at home. Kind of the same with the personal finance blog. I tried to write on a schedule. I posted about keeping to my budget and goals every Sunday evening for like two years. Two other times a week I put out content. Some of it was good. Most of it was not. And looking back at all of this reminds me of why I move to this blog \u2013 my \u201cone true blog\u201d. I can post about anything I want \u2013 pets, finances, parenting, fiction, etc. And that means that most of the content is better content than it was on the other blogs. It is not all perfect (see this post) because I still try to get one post a week up, and I do not always have something profound to say. But just like I pulled over all of my book reviews from 100 Words On, maybe I will start pulling over some of the better posts from the old blogs. I cannot read my old writing without making edits, seeing way to make it better, so I will certainly do that. But yeah. I have 3,000 posts worth of history to draw from. 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