This blog is a scratchpad that I use for getting ideas out.
I’m a “post-processor” thinker. I do tons of quick little edits and additions and subtractions from things until I have a much larger picture drawn and sometimes I do it for months or years.
It serves really two purposes:
- People who track what I’m working on get a glimpse of it without being able to see the whole product or finished examples. This is by design and allows me to perform logistics operations in many of my adventures. Not everyone who tracks what I do is a friend and this is a survival necessity — it is particularly useful with people who only read the first sentence in every paragraph out of hubris because they’re usually looking for exactly what I want them to find. This way I can get my notes out, share with friends what I’m working on, keep my enemies confused about where my progress is until showtime, and I genuinely have fun not having to organize until the content is ready.
- A catch-all net for getting ideas out into a big glob of unorganized nonsense for me to extract content from to put in other places across the net.
Every couple of years or so I spawn up a blog like this, spew cluttered stuff into it the whole time, then organize it somewhere else where each piece of content is intended, and then shut the scratchpad down.
This has been immensely profitable to me.