Happy Anniversary
10.31.22
Brooklyn, NY
Happy two year anniversary to the blog.
I made my first entry, about my trusty MacBook, on 10.31.2020. I had no idea what I was doing but knew I’d figure it out along the way. I’m still figuring it out and enjoying the process.
I recall that I wanted my first post to be Halloween-related but I was struggling to do the research and get an essay together. Instead, I posted about some recent updates I’d done to my MacBook (I’ve since upgraded). On November 1st I wrote my second post on Edgar Allen Poe, whose writings always seem to fit the atmosphere of fall and winter.
In recent months, my monthly or bi-monthly blog posts have waned. I’ve been focusing on my weekly Substack newsletter. I learned how to dive into a topic, boil it down and spit out a few sentences which I share every Friday to anyone who is interested in the stuff I’m interested in. The newsletter keeps me reading and researching because I know I’ll be posting on Friday. This is the system I’ve established so far. I have a few ideas on how I will be using the Substack and this blog in the future and I am looking forward to implementing them.
In Friday’s newsletter I included a discussion on the origins of our present-day Halloween customs here in the U.S. This is information which I wasn’t able to share two years ago in a blog post. I went back to the research I’d done from that period and used it to complete the newsletter. Blogging and creating the newsletter work hand-in-hand to develop my writing skills.
My hope is that I will be able to post here more often, maybe sharing more personal or ‘journal’ entries with longer-form historical or informational posts about topics I’m interested in sprinkled throughout. I may also post these ‘deeper’ posts to my Substack. Over the last few months, I’ve been working in piecemeal, some weeks more than others, on a bigger ‘novel’-type idea which will become the serial fiction I plan to release on Substack.
Writing has been an enjoyable, difficult, rewarding, enlightening process which I aim to continue.
KW
Thank you to all past, present and future readers wherever you may be.
