In the beginning…
Rojie’s prompt today, May 22nd, is:
When did you begin your WordPress journey, and how do you manage it day by day?
In the beginning
My WordPress journey began on March 11, 2009. I posted a review of a movie titled Dalkomhan Insaeng (A Bittersweet Life) and then two days later I shared some photos. I had no idea what to blog about at that point, so the blog was just random movie reviews and pictures and my thoughts about goofy stuff. I eventually discovered the writing community here the following spring and that’s when I started sharing stories and poems.
If you want to see those first posts from way back when, here they are: Movie Review and Random photos
Day to day
Managing the blog day to day was very simple because I didn’t really do anything to manage it. I stumbled my way through creating the blog and getting it set up. That was difficult but ok. Then I just clicked Add Post when I felt like adding a post and that was it. And that’s still it. If there’s anything that involves managing the blog I don’t know what it is.
The blog is in trouble
The blog isn’t much of anything now. I quickly stopped stopped liking writing movie reviews because it’s too difficult and I’m too lazy for that. I still like writing stories and poems but that comes with two problems. The first is that WordPress isn’t the best place in the world for feedback or constructive criticism and I’d like both of those things because they make a person a better (and more responsible) writer. The second is that my goal with writing is to try and get stuff published in places other than this blog so the only things I publish here are my silly thoughts on stuff. And when I ask myself how interesting that really is I don’t ever have an answer.
The blog is in even more trouble
The blog also looks bad. The theme – Vigilance – is old and is no longer supported and the instructions on changing the theme don’t leave me feeling confident that I can successfully do it. They seem pretty simple until the backup part: “Backup Your Site: Use a plugin like Jetpack VaultPress or Duplicator to save a full copy of your site.” Yeah, ok. I’m not the most tech-savvy person around and I don’t embrace it like a lot of people do so dealing with plug ins and stuff is something I don’t want to do. So it sits.
And the blogger is in trouble
This prompt comes at kind of an interesting time because I’ve been thinking of shutting the blog down. It’s still fun, but it’s not great fun anymore, and at this point blogging almost feels more like a freewriting exercise to wake my brain up to get ready to write something I’d like to write or work on, rather than my actually writing something I’d like to write or work on. But that’s a drastic solution and I’m not really a throw the baby out with the bathwater person so I thought maybe I should just make the entire site private but what does that solve? I don’t know. That’s just one of many dozens of questions that swirl around inside my head that I don’t answer. So what becomes of the blog? Where does the blogger go? What’s for dinner tonight? A lot of (un)important decisions to think about.
Meanwhile, inside the head…
“Holy blog post, Batman. We’re stuck in the middle of a dilemma that might not have a solution.”
“Relax, old chum. Fishbowl may be an evil genius, the most evilish geniusy villain that we’ve ever faced, but he doesn’t hold all the cards. We’ll make it out of this tangle of blog thoughts.”
“Has Fishbowl finally managed to subdue our Caped Crusaders? Is there really a way out of that miasma of thoughts? Tune in tomorrow. Same Bat time, same Bat channel.”
<cue outro music>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcLuL3PxwzY&list=RDCcLuL3PxwzY&start_radio=1
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