Over the years, I’ve spent a lot of my time writing. Writing little books to give to my family, writing fanfiction to share on Archive of Our Own (AO3), writing informational essays in school — you name it, I’ve done it. But, personal essays? Blog posts? I’ve never really understood how to write those, let alone how to write it well.
For some reason, in a lot of writing spheres, posting articles to a blog is considered practical experience for writing jobs. Why, might you ask? Well, it’s technically writing and it’s technically published since you’re posting it online for possibly many people to see. Technically, the things I post to AO3 are published works (or well, at least my finished works are), so the notion of writing seems to be quite free on the internet.
Most of my digital footprint sticks to the social media sphere of things. It’s what I’m most comfortable working with, and it’s what I’m most familiar with. But, if I could create a blog that wasn’t too far off of my own social media, I could have actual published writing out there and practice with a format I don’t write too much.
So, Here We Are!
My goal for this blog is to practice, mostly. Get my writing out there, learn how to write interesting articles, blog posts, and personal essays, and see how to garner an audience. This is going to be a learning process for me, and hopefully you, my dear reader, as we figure out yet another new platform.
I’m gonna keep a lot of my posts here specific to things I’m interested in talking about, much like I do on my BlueSky and Tumblr. Things like writing tidbits and struggles, video game reviews and historical features that are cool to me, and various other fandom-related discussions will be the highlight of this blog.
This will be a learning process for us all, and I can’t wait to see how this goes! It’s definitely going to be a wild ride, so buckle up!
But, that’s all I’ve got for now! Tune in next week where I discuss the state of affairs for my writing (and of course, Turnabout Transposed 👀).
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