I've been using WordPress for ages – for personal pages, "official" endeavours, and many, many tests.  I used to really like it; I'm not sure how I feel right now, honestly.  I find myself bogged down with stuff.  

There were also technical reasons I wanted to get away from WordPress, but that wasn't the only deciding factor for starting over.  I knew there was something off about my previous blog and it took me awhile to really place what it was.  I tried to find my Internet Voice™ – and I almost did, but it didn't always feel like me.

I think I became kind of obsessed with tone.  That's important in writing in general: keeping a consistent tone throughout the book or story.  Even the query letter's job is to be somewhat reflective of the narrative voice of the piece.

I wanted my blog to be fun, frivolous, and silly – just like the last book I wrote, Keystone Calamity.  Fantastical humour is not the only genre I write, though.  Sometimes I write serious, dramatic junk or awkward horror nonsense.  I might not share all that writing on the internets, but that content didn't jive with the tone I'd established with my blog early on.  If I wanted to share it or even talk about it, my blog (of all places!) just didn't seem like the right outlet.

What was I to do, then?  Create a different blog to sometimes possibly at one point in the future talk about different writing and sources?  Hah, unlikely!  I was barely updating one blog; adding another one into the mix was just foolish.

Not only that, but I was pigeon-holing myself into always talking shop when I sometimes wanted to talk about life too.  Writing is a big part of that, of course, but I wanted to talk about other things that make me creative.  I wanted to speak with candour and excitement about other projects I was working on (like learning programming or making games).

Sometimes I'm not writing (shocking, it's true... and probably bad practise.  I need to write more consistently, even if it's just flash fiction) for longer periods than I'd like to admit.  I don't want my blog to just stagnate – its poor underdeveloped self waiting for some cobbled-together stunted post every few years.  This way I am not stuck in a self-imposed box of content before I even really get going.  

Thus, we're born anew from the ashes of the old – good 'ol phoenix style.  I still have all my old posts and I might post them here and there in the future.  I'm excited to just... talk about all sorts of things here!

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