A lot of changes have developed in my life lately and I'm issuing a challenge to myself as a result, hoping to capitalize on the combined senses of accomplishment and opportunity they provide. I'm also failing miserably at my one New Year's resolution and this is an attempt to wrest control of personal discipline back. My house is built and we've moved in, my daughter is starting to speak, and I'm about to get my driver's license.
So my personal challenge is this: 31 posts in the 31 days of March. I want to stop doing this half-assed blog and start making it a bit more reliable. I've been afraid to commit to it because that implies that I want to build readership which in turn implies that I think I've got readerworthy content. But I've been pussy-footing around, afraid to make that assertion. But enough of that. I'm no Andrew Sullivan, but I'm working hard on this and I think that I have nuggets of goodness worth more attention. So I'm going to be aiming for a daily update this month. A couple friends are launching a blog of their own (which I think they are taking a bit too seriously at first, but whatever) and I was secretly hoping to get invited to work with them, but then they chickened out. It would be easier to maintain a blog if someone else wrote on it, but every single attempt I've made to get someone else to post here has fallen on deaf ears. No one has even acknowledged the notion, much less said no. There is a standing invitation to anyone who reads this, so get in touch with me. I have no standards for content or quality, so you're guaranteed an editorial position.
Hopefully this effort is going to translate into a few more regular readers (I have one, I think, so any improvement is going to be in full factors. SCHWING!!). If any bloggers reading here are willing to help me out with a few comments on any posts I make on their own blogs (I have a forum for comments until I develop an anti-comment spam solution for this blog), I'd be grateful.
I might be introducing a couple new categories, namely photos and Equinox. I've been taking a lot of pictures since I got my digital SLR a few months back and will be posting some of my better or favorite pictures. I also am writing in a fiction role-playing game of sorts that I'll be cross-posting my entries in. In this game, players create a character and then write their character into the storylines provided every mission. As you write, you introduce plot elements and contribute to a serial short story in response to the posts by other people. It's quite a lot of fun and is open to the public, so any interested should check it out.
Lastly, if anyone was interested in my thus-so-far failed NYResolution, it was to eat less pizza. I love pizza and eat way too much of it. It is an expensive treat here in Japan, usually costing between $22 and $30. So there is the monetary incentive. I'm more active now than I used to be, but I still don't have what I would consider to be an active lifestyle, so fueling it with pizza isn't good for the heart attack on my horizon. And I'm trying to work on a less self-indulgent lifestyle and wanted to introduce a bit of self-denial of menial desires into my life, a sort of masochistic self-development (sheesh I feel self-absorbed in this post. I think I'll end before I start referring to the author in the third person.).
Posted by Nutrimentia at March 2, 2005 02:48 PM | TrackBack