The Thrilling Threes
Mar. 25th, 2015 03:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blogcutterMy blog is three years old today! Time for its annual check-up?
The first question I'm pondering is whether it has lived up to my expectations. Overall, I'd say yes. I continue to post, though not as frequently as I did in the beginning. I continue to prefer this type of forum to knee-jerk social media sites like Twitter or Facebook, neither of which lends itself to fully developing an argument or perspective on anything. Dreamwidth has lots of nifty features to it, and I haven't even scratched the surface when it comes to exploring them. I occasionally do the "random blog" read. On the other hand, I'm eventually going to have to do some tag-management work. I've already used up nearly a quarter of the maximum 1000 tags per blog. I suppose I could split my blog into three or four separate blogs - one for "What is blogcutter reading", one for travelogues, one for gender, and so on - so that each one of them would be allowed 1000 tags, but I'm not sure I want to devote the time to keeping them all going. And anyway, it's probably better to tighten up and limit the tags I have, using more controlled vocabulary to facilitate retrieval and grouping of related entries.
I'm also thinking of following more blogs by other people - and maybe that will inspire me with my own. Here are two I regularly read related to murder mysteries:
http://mysterymavencdn.blogspot.com
http://typem4murder.blogspot.com
And at the moment, I'm reading a book I got from the library, "What makes this book so great" by Jo Walton (author of the alternate history series Farthing; Ha'penny; and Half Crown), which is a series of selected blog entries she originally posted between 2008 and 2011, together with a few short essays on such topics as how and why she re-reads, and the difference between literary criticism and talking about books. So once I've read that, I'll likely be looking online for some of her more recent posts. I nearly went to see her at CanCon last year, but things seemed rather hectic around that time and I decided not to do CanCon. Speculative fiction is one of those areas that I tend to read only selectively, unlike crime fiction where I'm a keen reader and convention-goer.
I'm not likely to run out of topics for my blog any time soon, mind you. The challenge, I find, is deciding which topic is the most pressing or inspiring to write about right now, or in the near future, and which topics lend themselves to being grouped together ... or not.
So watch this space, folks - I'm still alive and kicking!
The first question I'm pondering is whether it has lived up to my expectations. Overall, I'd say yes. I continue to post, though not as frequently as I did in the beginning. I continue to prefer this type of forum to knee-jerk social media sites like Twitter or Facebook, neither of which lends itself to fully developing an argument or perspective on anything. Dreamwidth has lots of nifty features to it, and I haven't even scratched the surface when it comes to exploring them. I occasionally do the "random blog" read. On the other hand, I'm eventually going to have to do some tag-management work. I've already used up nearly a quarter of the maximum 1000 tags per blog. I suppose I could split my blog into three or four separate blogs - one for "What is blogcutter reading", one for travelogues, one for gender, and so on - so that each one of them would be allowed 1000 tags, but I'm not sure I want to devote the time to keeping them all going. And anyway, it's probably better to tighten up and limit the tags I have, using more controlled vocabulary to facilitate retrieval and grouping of related entries.
I'm also thinking of following more blogs by other people - and maybe that will inspire me with my own. Here are two I regularly read related to murder mysteries:
http://mysterymavencdn.blogspot.com
http://typem4murder.blogspot.com
And at the moment, I'm reading a book I got from the library, "What makes this book so great" by Jo Walton (author of the alternate history series Farthing; Ha'penny; and Half Crown), which is a series of selected blog entries she originally posted between 2008 and 2011, together with a few short essays on such topics as how and why she re-reads, and the difference between literary criticism and talking about books. So once I've read that, I'll likely be looking online for some of her more recent posts. I nearly went to see her at CanCon last year, but things seemed rather hectic around that time and I decided not to do CanCon. Speculative fiction is one of those areas that I tend to read only selectively, unlike crime fiction where I'm a keen reader and convention-goer.
I'm not likely to run out of topics for my blog any time soon, mind you. The challenge, I find, is deciding which topic is the most pressing or inspiring to write about right now, or in the near future, and which topics lend themselves to being grouped together ... or not.
So watch this space, folks - I'm still alive and kicking!
