I Have no Voice
The title above is very melodramatic, but this post is quite benign: I have no voice for blogging.
Which is to say, the words I write don't quite feel natural. They don't feel like me. They feel as though I am writing in the voice of someone else, trying to pretend to be more 'blog worthy'.
Which is a strange way to feel, but there it is.
So I started this blog for no real reason other than the vibe. I wanted to get some words out there and I didn't have an outlet. I've messed around with blogs before on Wordpress. I even bought my own domain and had my own setup ... and I just hated it. I hated all the bells and whistles, the SEO stuff, the warnings, the tags and categories and all the other junk that probably doesn't matter a damn. Then I tried Substack and that also seemed a bit too much like work. Do I need images on every post? Do I need to split my work into subheadings?
I don't think I do.
And do I even need a theme?
You see, if you buy a domain and start blogging, you're probably going to want a theme. Food bloggers write about food. Tech bloggers write about tech. I wanted something that was more like a journal. Just random thoughts. I don't want to optimize for Google, I want to optimize for me.
And this blog -- bearblog! -- seems perfect for me. Just a simple way to write. It uses markdown, and I love markdown. It's easy to log in, easy to start writing. I've got this on my phone and on my little PC. I have a Raspberry Pi in the studio; I'll add it to that, too. Just words that nobody will ever see.
It's so ... freeing.
Anyway, I think it was Scorcese that said: "The things you do badly are just as much a part of your style as the things you do well."
So we'll go with that.