I’ve been doing this blog for a long time – 23 years in February.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It’s still a part of my day every morning – I’m usually up doing some kind of writing or another,\u00a0 before 6AM every weekday.\u00a0 And it’s the bulk of my radio show prep.\u00a0\u00a0 And it’s also kind of a quick reference for the past 23 years of my various goings-on.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
That makes me sound like a creature of habit.\u00a0\u00a0 I guess it\u00a0 is <\/em>a habit of mine – the gnawing urge to get something <\/em>down, profound or pathetic, wakes up with me every day.\u00a0<\/p>\n But notwithstanding that, I’m a fundamentally restless person.\u00a0\u00a0 I’d like to keep doing what I do – only better.\u00a0<\/p>\n Now, this old WordPress site is getting a little long in the tooth.\u00a0\u00a0 The “template” on which it runs is almost 15 years old.\u00a0 Things are breaking – and I have a hunch, given WordPress’s fundamentally chaotic nature (like I should talk) that upgrading would be…sporty.\u00a0<\/p>\n And I have some new ideas for content in mind – blog writing, yes, but there’s at least one other book project, maybe two, in mind (not to mention an update and print edition of Trulbert<\/em>).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And I have some other content ideas rattling around in my head that could finally come to fruition over the winter.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n And I’m starting to think a different platform might be useful – one with a little more flexibility, and the ability to make a little money off these ventures baked in.\u00a0<\/p>\n Not that I’m going to charge for the blog – what’d be the point?\u00a0 But some of the other ideas might have the opportunity to put a little money in the pot.\u00a0<\/p>\n I don’t qualify for OnlyFans, and I’d rather gargle razor blades than use Medium.\u00a0<\/p>\n So I’m pondering <\/em>moving the blog to Substack.\u00a0<\/p>\n I’m leery of the idea, of course – I remember all the bloggers who moved to Facebook and Twitter, and regretted it shortly.\u00a0\u00a0 I’d keep shotinthedark.info for…something.\u00a0 Special projects?<\/p>\n But Substack is arguably a better, better-connected platform for both exposure and money, even if I don’t make the blog pay-per-view.\u00a0 Which I won’t.\u00a0<\/p>\n It’s winter.\u00a0 A time for huge projects, after all!<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been doing this blog for a long time – 23 years in February.\u00a0 It’s still a part of my day every morning – I’m usually up doing some kind of writing or another,\u00a0 before 6AM every weekday.\u00a0 And it’s the bulk of my radio show prep.\u00a0\u00a0 And it’s also kind of a quick reference […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-mitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88850,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88849\/revisions\/88850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}