Over the past three and a half months, I have been working on establishing MagicJunk.com, expanding my portfolio of paintings, creating more Acrylitures, and starting work on my 2nd novel.
But amongst it all, I’ve been doing a fair amount of blogging. Mostly here on Blogimus Prime (or its various former versions), because I wanted to have a forum where I could leave updates about the site, my creations, and so on. But I also joined a site called BlogCritics where hundreds post entries in the categories of music, books, video, culture and politics. It’s quite expansive and almost every kind of news story gets coverage.
While I am by no means a connoisseur of current events or really even have any aspirations at all to be a reporter or editor, I nevertheless tried my hand at contributing my two cents where I could in terms of group participation. You can read my entries and recent comments here. I started out a little rough, and have had some clunkers in terms of getting comments, but I always had two goals going in: Get my name recognized as a writer, and (a no brainer) practice my first person writing since that’s the perspective of my 2nd novel.
At this point, I’m at 21 posts, 152 comments. While I have enjoyed the cerebral action and reaction that BlogCritics has given me, I’ve always got to recognize that I have loftier goals for the near future, and BC takes a lot of time that I should be focusing on other things, mainly novel writing and painting among other activities.
So I am contemplating an expiration date for myself in participating on BlogCritics. Much in the same way that I have managed to slowly rid myself of television, I wonder if this is another step in less distraction. I mean, you get one life— when you look back, wouldn’t you like to have as little regret as possible? Exactly. But the only way to control that is to focus on the present, and don’t wait until it’s too late. However, the blog is a form of documentation, a history of what I was thinking and feeling at that moment.
Naturally, I could stop blog critiquing today if I so chose, but I decided instead to set myself some goals to solidify my participation. If I cannot find a specific area to focus my writings, then I will stop at 30 posts or 300 comments, whichever comes first. Although I’d like to reach both, I’m modest as always. Nevertheless, if I can manage to balance it all, then I shall continue. So it is said. I’m always trying new things and I imagine this was a step in helping my writing voice and style, and for that, it’s a good thing. But where the future lies is unknown.