So I’ve been gone from this blog for a long time. The first reason is that I decided to make major revisions to my novel. Now it’s not that this blog takes allll that much time, but I just didn’t have the mental space for it. I wasn’t thinking tech at all (except when I was working at my job); I was thinking writing. And I didn’t want to be blogging about my personal experiences with voice and devices and plot manipulation because it would kill the magic of my novel for future readers. After you’ve read a book it can be interesting to pick it apart, discover the process behind it, but not before.
The other reason I took a break is that I was trying to decide whether this blog was even a good idea. Is it a waste of time? Is it just one more surge of data amongst all the others, merely cluttering my server space? Yes, there are a lot of people who care about cool tech and how it relates to art and politics, but who cares what I have to say about it? And then there are my fellow writers, many of whom do not have blogs because either they consider it a waste of their writing time or they believe that literary writers don’t blog.
So — is this blog a waste of time? Not to me, so it’s back and I will be updating it regularly from now on.
