Thanks to Myer I've been reading Jeff Atwood's Coding Horror on a regular basis recently. For a web designer turned developer it's a godsend - especially for someone like me who dry-humps the very idea of 'best practices' in every systematic thing I do.
Today I came across a post in which Jeff outlines an extremely simple best practice of sorts for being a blogger: Choose a schedule you can live with, and stick to it. It's moronically simple, which is why it's also utterly useful advice. So, I decided to take it, and use this blog and Lovely Media as my experiments.
When I started this 'dreamlife of letters blog' it was specifically with the intent that nobody would read it. I had just started working on my book (which will be the subject of many future posts, and is the driving motivation to get off my ass and write again) and was looking for an easy and accessible place to catalog my ideas. This was before the days of google documents.
Somewhere along the line I started to occasionally write as though someone were actually reading. I went back and forth this way for a while until my current "somebody might be reading but it's probably just Myer" mentality. If you are reading, thanks Myer! But after reading Jeff's post I've become inspired to make this thing work both as a dumping-ground for research and ideas related to my book and other detritus as well as something a person who does not know me may actually enjoy reading occasionally.
The whole point of Lovely Media on the other hand was to make the common link-email-exchange that happened amongst my friends a community activity. I thought we were all sharing some pretty neat things with each other, and it made sense to also share these neat things with anyone who might be interested.
So I'm going to alternate between the two blogs - three posts a week for each, after Jeff's six post goal. I think it's a good one - gives me a day off, and by splitting time between blogs I have some variety personally. The actual problem of when to post is one I haven't worked out yet. I'm writing this at nearly 1am in the morning, which is probably when most posts will happen, but I'll need to feel out when I'm in the most bloggy mood as I go I suppose. I'm on a new triphasic sleep schedule (more on that soon) and so I have a lot more hours in the day to choose from to designate as blogging / writing time.
No matter who is reading, if anyone, I can already tell it's going to feel good to write again.
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