Three Out of Six Ain't Bad

I have a weird habit. Every so often–twice a year, maybe–I'll buy a new notebook, and I'll use this notebook as a travel journal, or for notes for a class I'm enrolled in. Eventually, the class or the trip will end, and the notebook, only half filled, will end up on a shelf to gather dust, waiting until the day I pick it up, leaf through it, and shove it into a box. I like recording things, but I also like a certain degree of order. Separate ideas, life stages, or classes, belong in separate notebooks. It takes up a lot of space (and paper), but it's how I operate. 

I do a similar thing with blogs, although I'm quicker to throw them in the trash can than I am with my notebooks. Notebooks, while not entirely private (somebody going through my things could easily find and read them), are not available for the world to see. The same cannot be said of the things you write on the internet. You write it, you post it, and it's out there. It's true, the chance that someone will read it is still quite small for most people. But if someone cares enough, if they really want to dig, they can find you, your blog, and all of your weird, human thoughts spilled out over their computer screen.

Of course, the ease of accessibility to one's online writing changes the style and content considerably. Journals and notebooks are meant to be private, and with that, structure, coherence, and content follow no strict rules. Blogs, on the other hand, are, after all, at least intended to be read. Yet blogs are still personal. Writing, in all its forms, provides some degree of insight into the mind of the author. Journals, obviously, tend toward the unfiltered. But even public writings, and blogs, especially, betray some of the author's personality. For personal blogs, there is no editor, no proofreader. While an awareness of the openness and accessibility of the web creates some self-censorship (for most of us, anyway), it still takes a considerable amount of care to craft an authentic, personal piece, while still keeping some of your cards close to your chest. 

It's for this reason that I only have three blogs online right now, despite having started at least twice that number. (Even then, only two of them are active.) It's cheap, fast, and simple to start a blog. Any number of platforms will let you register a domain for free, and they provide an abundance of templates and blogging tools to help you post and maintain the site. But after you build your blog, you actually need to fill it with something. This is where most projects fail.

On that happy note, let me introduce Drinky-Poo! Yes, it's a really dumb name. But I chose a dumb name to keep me from putting too much pressure on myself. It's a blog about drinks of all sorts, mostly alcoholic ones, and as such I didn't think I should try to make it too serious.

That's it for now. I hate to end abruptly, but this went on longer than I expected. For more of information about Drinky-Poo, head to the portfolio section of this site, or go directly to the new blog itself. Enjoy!