2023-01-03 22:50

technically, this blog is a year old already.

so i am sitting here in the beginning of 2023, thinking the same things i’ve been going through a year ago when i’ve subscribed to Blot — how i’d like to be a person who writes; and how cool it is to have your own place on the internet.

it took me a year of remembering and forgetting about this blog to dare to start again, to take what i already had and strip it down only to what i actually needed. i guess, some people do new year resolutions, others do yearly themes. i do writing aspirations.

it’s no surprise, really, i’ve decided to go the writing way. for years i’ve been listening to the greats talking about their writing practices and processes on their podcasts, i’ve been obsessed with recording my life as long as i remember myself, and, let’s be honest, it’s easier to start writing than, possibly, any other way of capturing one’s thoughts.

i’ve been seeing more and more independent blogs in my wanderings around the internet so why not have my own. it doesn’t cost much, i already avoid social media under pretenses that some of my friends consider completely irrelevant, and i do like to tinker with technology.
so there you are: a page on the web whose sole purpose is to be a receptacle of all my outward facing ruminations on anything that seems worthy of making public.

it has been highly inspired in its design by Julian Lehr’s gorgeously polished blog and stripped off of all the superfluous crud after reading Nicolas Magand’s many posts on The Jolly Teapot.

i like to think that all the years of being enamoured with what Merlin Mann has to say about writing have, in theory, made me a better writer myself. but that’s the impetus behind this blog — to have a check on reality and maybe, just maybe, put something out there that other people might enjoy.