This thought has been on my mind for a while, but a job hunt was taking high priority for the last few months. Now that I have a steady stable job, though, it feels like the right time to just do this. But rather than suddenly changing things around without saying anything, it only makes sense to write this entry.
Basically, something’s gonna change around here. The idea is still the same (that idea being to dive fuller into video production and work it into the blog), but something about how it’s done will be different, and that after much thinking, it feels like I may have to change the layout here. I’ve been learning some HTML & CSS and am getting ideas/rough-concepts of how I can tailor things further, but I also know there’s other themes that might give me a starting point before I really go all-out (and that may be the better thing to do.).
I also want to work on the interaction here. I’m happy that a good handful of people are following this blog, and obviously there will be more, but I also feel like I take to seriously re-evaluate the kind of entries I’ve been writing, some I’d been wanting to write, and some that perhaps I wrote but didn’t seem to feel that they really did anything. Some of the categories might be cut out or replaced with something else. I have always thought of replacing specific blog entries with video adaptations, and I still like that idea, but some might be phased out so as to make for a cleaner slate of sorts.
I don’t want to say this year will be experimental, but I suppose that’s going to happen regardless. Everything evolves, and the only way to really do it is to do it. I wanna change things, and TikTok has helped me ease back into making videos, so now I want to go further with everything. Considering that the blog theme/layout will have to change in order to bring better direction to those bigger projects, it will require some tinkering and, thus, will be a risk. But if there’s anything I’ve gotten better at since my mental health incident, it’s taking risks. I have lots of ideas, so there are many risks I am ready for.
Last year only have a very small bit of entries, and that was due to lingering effects from mental health stuff & also personal stuff. This year, I’m going big. I feel more like that ideal me and I’m ready to really show it.
Happy new year everyone, I’ll see ya soon!
I suppose every blog is an experiment until you produce the same genre of content in the same format regularly (e.g. a recipe blog that posts a recipe with a short anecdote on some schedule x). It’ll be interesting to see the evolution.
Agreed. I like the variety stuff I’ve been doing, but it feels like the blog needs a breath of fresh air. It’s a bit of a challenge condensing the types of entries in some way. And now that I’m doing videos, it’ll be fun bringing those into entries the way I always wanted to. I’m excited to see how it goes. 🙂