The Trouble With Blogging

After a few weeks of blogging, and many many more weeks of avoiding blogging, I have realized a few things:

1) Blogging is hard. I knew that, of course, but one doesn't realize how hard it is until they're trying to do it, and especially to do it daily.

2) The more I interact with internet fandom, the less I like comics.

I was going to write a lot more on that subject, but I think that's what it boils down to. In short, I am currently rethinking my strategy. I'd like to get this blog going again. But the daily schedule I set for myself was much too much for me, and there are certain aspects of the blogging community that simply will not work for me because of that. I also have no desire left to keep up with the controversies, squabbles, demands, and trends in the internet fandom, which I find to be viscious, nearsighted and petty. (I refer mostly to the messageboard communities and not to the excellent blogs I continue to link to.) Most of all I don't want to be half-assed in my writing on this site. After some years of writing (in various locations) for mainstream-oriented sites as a sort of liason to the margins, you end up developing a certain "take-your-medicine" attitude that noone finds appealing, least of all me. It's probably time to admit that I'm tired of banging my head against the wall and that I'm writing for myself or for noone, or for however many like-minded souls are interested in discussing indie comics, not as a subset of or alternative to the mainstream, but in isolation. I'm thinking of a total redesign of the site and a more essay-oriented periodic format. I might also consider introducing other topics- while I don't want to make this into a "what did I eat for breakfast today?" blog, I did always have in mind introducing some flexibility of subject matter.

More soon.