I’ve realized I’ve been lacking in a crucial part with this blog – me.

As much as I would love for my work to stand on its own, that’s not the purpose of this blog. It’s not the point. That’s a stretch goal, a goal for the future when the work is established. Right now, building and writing and laying out the foundation, there is no work to stand. Something else has to and that has to be me.

I follow other blogs because of two things: the content or the person behind the blog. When it comes to writing blogs? I follow for the person. It doesn’t matter how good the content is if I don’t connect with the person. It doesn’t matter if there’s any content if I connect with the person. So why am I keeping that one criteria off my blog?

It’s so easy to get caught up in the pretentiousness of this blog. It’s clean. It’s fancy. It’s where I can be serious. But that’s not going to garner support and it’s not going to build the followers I want to build. I intended for this to be an easy way to separate my fanfiction from my original work, but…I think that was a mistake. I don’t think they need to be separated because I’m not separated. 

I’m going to think it over. And then I might be rearranging. I have two options: (1) continue keeping the two blogs separate, but inject my personality into this one as equally as I do the other or (2) leave this blog behind and focus everything onto one blog again. Cultivate one audience.

I know what I’m leaning toward. My pride doesn’t want to let this go because this blog is just so damned pretty, but I need to stop listening to pride and listen to reason.