It’s frightening how much I’ve forgotten in one year of only sporadically blogging. I have to relearn simple coding. And so much has changed. The TypePad interface has changed. Facebook has taken over the internet world. I’ve added the Facebook like button to my posts; this is great, at least I know folks are stopping by, even if they (you) don’t comment.
Blogrolling has closed down, and with it, most of my blogrolls. Those blogrolls took years to develop, and I don’t know that I will take that on again. At least not immediately. For the moment, I’ll be concentrating on just writing and posting more frequently.
I’m considering stopping the Networked Blogs posting to Facebook. None of these services are well designed for poets; they all strip the line breaks, so what shows up is a thick block of text. I’m working on a way to post links and a few lines to Facebook, hoping that readers will click through if they’re interested.
I haven’t even been taking photos, so must become reacquainted with my cameras. All these skills that used to seem so easy, almost natural, have become clumsy and awkward with disuse.
A year of not writing makes that a challenge as well. I feel rusty, creaky, and generally off-balance. But that’s getting better. Already. I think.
And, of course, there is the deeper angst — the does it matter angst, the am I good enough to be bothering with this angst. This helped:
(Now, see — damned if I can get that to center.)
My plan/hope is to resume blogging two or three times each week. I do not expect to go back to the nearly daily schedule I maintained early on.
To those who have kept me on their readers and links, and those who keep coming by to see if there’s anything new to look at: Thank you!
(UPDATE 23 Sept. 2012: removed dead link)
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