This is just as easy to write on as any other platform. My ideas and thoughts can be fleshed out here. There is nothing stopping me. The only concern I have is that there are now followers to this blog, and I am beholden to them a little bit to produce something useful. Well, let this be a proviso then, that there may not be anything useful in the pages you may or may not read.
I have realized that I was splintering my writing into three main areas. 750words.com is a great website for getting writing going. It has some unique attributes to analyze your writing when finished for the day, and you can earn badges by putting together multiple days of writing.
Blogger is a lesser platform than WordPress, but Blogger is free right now and this is where I started, so. I started nobushel because I wanted to have a record of all my writing for others to see the path from undeveloped writer to, hopefully, professional writer. A lot of the time the pre-work gets lost in the adulation around the work that breaks. I wanted a record of the shit.
Finally, I have the Google Docs, where the fiction goes for the most part. The longer works go there, the longer fiction and nonfiction. I used to put all my thoughts in Google Docs as well, but I decided I wanted a more public record of my thoughts.
And so I started nobushel.blogspot.com. Which is where you are right now.
So the real reason I am writing this post is to say that I will be refocusing my efforts on recording all my thoughts and work on this site, nobushel.blogspot.com, and the public record can take it where it may.
I started using 750words.com in order to bypass the sharing, or record my thoughts without worry of sharing too much. Well, I'm not worried about that anymore. Not many people read this, and that's what a blog is for anyway; for sharing.
Might I not always feel this way? Probably. I will probably change my mind tomorrow, but I want to move forward anyway, pushing myself a little bit more each day to write and share the writing.
I have realized that writing is just thinking. It just happens to be that the thoughts get onto a page, and are available for reflection and interaction later on down the line. There is nothing special about writing, and insofar as it has to do with thinking, it is no more beneficial than not thinking at all. But I decided a long time ago that I enjoy writing, and that I want to continue to do it until I die. I think the same way about music. I enjoy playing and writing music and want to continue the practice into old age.
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