When I posted for This Creative Life last week, I noticed that I’d posted nothing here on my blog since the previous This Creative Life episode. I also had the occasion, while looking for something I wrote a long time ago, to go through my blog circa 2006-2008, etc. It got me thinking about how this space has changed and how I think of it now vs. how I thought of it then.
As my writing life and career have changed, I feel like my web site has become more and more an Official Thing, a representation of me in the professional world of writing and publishing. Consequently, I think I feel like my posts here have to be either 1) essay-ish, like this one, with some kind of well-developed point or 2) news-ish – about appearances or book news or new podcast episodes or whatever else in the realm of Information that people might come to this site looking for.
I don’t really mean “have to”, because it’s all my choice, but when I want to be more raw or frivolous or cranky I don’t tend to post here like I used to. I keep my thoughts twitter-sized, or go to tumblr for medium-form stuff. Though I know that all tweets are archived by the Library of Congress (which seems like a huge waste of space) and tumblr is no less permanent than anything else online, words feel more fixed here for some reason.
Anyway, I will never abandon the sarazarr.com blog. But you can also find me in those other spaces if it’s getting too quiet around here for you.
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It’s something I’ve noticed too. Now that I have more “platforms,” it’s a choice. How goofy do I want *this* platform to be. And early on in blogging, everyone was blogging and we were all whining. Now blogs are less common, blogging is less common, and we’re all getting older, so there’s more “am I being professional?”
Keep doing what you’re doing.
xo,
SL
You told me a loooong time ago that I should make a blog and start posting things. Well, guess what?! For TWO of my classes, I now have blogs. Crazy, right? Maybe one day I’ll actually have a legit blog and not just post things because it was assigned to me.
Sara, you rock, and I love you.
That is all.
:)