Initial Thoughts

So, why start a blog?

Self improvement
- Test the hypothesis: Having an audience for my work (even if it’s small) will improve the quality of my work. Having an audience for my thoughts will improve the quality of those thoughts.
- Test the hypothesis: Having a blog waiting for new posts will motivate me to produce posts. Producing posts will force me to explore new technical topics or create art, two things that I want to do more of.
Online presence matters
- I hate social media – I find that it tends towards addicting, lowest common denominator content which at best wastes my time and at worst makes me actively feel bad. That being said, having an online presence is undeniably important for all kinds of things: career advancement, meeting new like-minded people, meeting new people with different perspectives, and having fun (to name a few). I’m aware of how late to the game I am on this revelation, but it’s better late than never.

In short: Whatever I feel like!
In long:
- Posts will probably fall into two distinct categories:
  - Fiction. Short stories, mostly. Maybe bits of RPG campaigns that I run if they’re worth sharing.
  - Nonfiction. Thoughts about something I’m interested in. Possible topics include technical writeups of projects I’m working on, musing about Magic: the Gathering and tabletop RPGs. I’ll try to use tags to make it easy to distinguish post types.
- Hopefully the scope of this blog will expand or diminish as needed as I discover what I actually enjoy writing about. I don’t want to tie myself down to any particular format or topic since I’m just starting out!