![]() After you’ve been doing it awhile you might find the topic or the angle you want to focus on, which is good for retention. If you’re passionate about something let the world know. So these are two things I’ve learned over the years.įirst: Write about whatever you want. Hopefully people feel the same way and like what they see here.įrom here, I’m supposed to give two pieces of advice to anyone who wants to start a blog. As much as I like a lot of the people doing YouTube videos there are situations where just reading something feels better. I still think there’s a place for long form written reviews. Eventually, I just decided I still wanted to write even if I was the only one doing it and so here we are. ![]() But that was a great outlet in its short time. A local friend at the time started a small game blog called Retro Retreat, and I contributed a couple of articles here and there to the page before life got in everyone’s way, and that folded. I still had the ability to write other things, and so I decided to continue to write about video games. Time heals all wounds as they say, so perhaps someday there will be an interest in trying again.īut I did still have my love of video games. And so if the urge to write poetry again comes back peaceably without reminding me of that ordeal at every attempt to put pen to paper, I may do that privately or on a separate blog altogether. But I don’t desire to go through the five stages of grief over and over again though. I have no idea where they are or how they’re doing, and I don’t care to find out. The hurt just bleeds out and I can’t do it. To this day if I try to write poetry it’s like picking at that scab. We’d gotten each other through ups and downs with emotional support. We’d become friends over writing, reading, and critiquing each other’s work. And at the time about the only person I could really feel unjudged confiding in. But what really put a stake in that heart (and proverbially mine as well) was when a long time friend of 15 years unexpectedly cut me out of their lives completely. I had of course written in a local, offline group from around 2004 to around 2010 until the person running it came grievously ill and had to disband it. Things on my poetry end went right off a cliff in 2012 though. ![]() But I did take a crack at a few user sections of other bigger places before those went defunct as well. I never fostered a huge following, I haven’t here either but that was never the point. And it was around this time I was also dabbling in talking about my other big passion gaming. I probably did the best with my Vox page, but when that service went belly up it took a ton of stuff with it. When that went away though I had moved around to a few different places. Which is where I made a few friends and it was mainly therapeutic for us. I started out actually in a small patchwork of would-be poets in a now long defunct group called A Window On My Mind. I’ve been blogging for a very, very long time in one form or another. ![]() I kind of do that in a super bite-sized capsule form in the “About” here, but I’ll unpack it partially here I suppose. You’re supposed to give a summary about how the blog came to be. Chances are, you’ll learn something new, agree with or disagree with an opinion, and perhaps it will lead to a friendly debate or discussion. They do some terrific stuff on their own site, and there is a lot to binge on. The first step is to thank the blogger who nominated you, which I really do thank MoeGamer. So anyway, there are a few things you’re supposed to do when a fellow blogger gives you the rub (as they say in pro wrestling circles) and so I’ll have to do those here: Sure, it may not lead to becoming the next big name, but it’s cool someone with far more star power enjoyed their visit to your tiny corner of the universe. It must be kind of like the songwriter of a fledgling rock band putting out a song, not thinking it will get far beyond the cult status and then surprisingly it turns out James Hetfield, or Billie Joe Armstrong or Robin Wilson heard it and adored it. So to be recognized by any veteran is humbling. Before internet websites posted long-form content, and independent enthusiasts made YouTube channels, you often thumbed through magazines to get your game information. Particularly, the stuff that might have a lot of over-the-top fan service, or even an eroge (erotic) themed game. For those who stumble upon this and may not know, Pete has a long history writing for gaming mags often reviewing the esoteric games many people wouldn’t want to write about. I unexpectedly found myself mentioned over the weekend by the great MoeGamer Pete Davison.
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