I tried. I really, really did. I thought that by putting a fresh coat of paint on countless WordPress blogs that I would keep writing. To be fair: I thought the same thing about when I was trying to maintain a site with blogger, tumblr, and live journal (and you can only guess how that turned out).
This time, though, I think it's different. I'm trying to reimagine how I write and what I share, and I think it's falling somewhere between 280 character Tweets and more long-form blog posts (that, regrettably, have wild gaps between updates).
The void
Let's be real: nobody gives a shit about what I have to say. I'm a white cis 42 year-old gen-x male. But this is the Internet - still Web 2.0, motherfuckers - and I just need a platform to shake my fist at clouds, baby!
My solution is to start micro-blogging on Ghost. Being fully transparent, I'm happy to pay the $9 per month / $108 per year for Ghost to provide the platform for me to write and not have to worry about uptime, maintenance, plug-ins, et cetera. And, I can cancel anytime.
Update: I'm now self-hosting on a Digital Ocean droplet. You can read more about the move on the Colophon page.
Thanks
Thanks for indulging me in trying something new. I'm not trying to build an audience, I'm not trying to drive subscribers, and I'm sure as hell not trying to earn any money here – I'm just looking for a nice, open-source, no-bullshit medium to be myself.
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Edit: Twitter ain't cool anymore, so I've deleted all of my Tweets. Stay away, y'all.
