>Better Blogging

~The Issue

I cannot stay on one topic. I have an idea in mind about what I am going to blog about then I find myself going on tangents then my tangents invite in more tangents. It is kind of a mess but its nice because it is pretty cool retracing my thought process during the time I am writing the blog. But I want to be a better writer and articulate my thoughts better. There will be times where I write brain barf, unspellchecked gibberish (I will probably have to label these with "BRAIN BARF" or "GIBBERISH") but I want to write in a more "consumable" manner. In a way that people read what they somewhat expected to read.

~How

My blogs that are not brain barfs will be more on one concentrated topic. They will be spellchecked and revised and all that fancy stuff (I won't be too strict on commas and all that extra stuff). What I REFUSE to give up is plucking statements that I want to leave in because it helps me remember what I was thinking at the time of writing this.

Example:

Hey I was walking down the street to go to the store then I saw a dog. Now that I think about it, it was a cat that looked like a dog. Actually no it was a dog because their owner told me it was a dog.

If I wanted to sell my soul and have no personality and not show what type of individual I am the sentence would look like this:

Hey I was walking down the street to go to the store then I saw a dog.

Both are fine. But to me the first one shows me what I was thinking, and how I think. I know its not that deep but there is a special feeling that I get reading back the first one in comparison to the second one. Maybe after I learn to blog/write better I can articulate and describe the feeling better.

~Why

I don't know how to think. Doom scrolling has taken away my ability to sit down with one idea in my mind and stare it in the eye. Actually I did that to myself because I am the one choosing to scroll.

I have an idea and then another jumps in and then another and so on. I need one thing, and I need to put that thing in a spotlight and dissect it. Other things can make a small, short appearance but thats it. Its time to develop a better sense of focus and care (care = me actually reading back my work and correcting it).

~The Future

Some of these blogs will now be made with more intent rather than throwning random ingredients in a pot and seeing how it turns out. There will be time for random pot ingredient nights, but from now on there will be a lot more blogs with ONE central idea. I am very excited because this will allow me to express and reiterate my thoughts on something like:

• Movies I've watched
• Interesting people
• Experiences
• Stuff I am learning

Like I said for the millionth time I will also create blogs with a bunch of concepts randomly thrown together with a lot of errors but that will be (hopefully) more rare and also labeled with a prefix (still need to come up with one).

~Speaking of Tangents

Also a fun thought, if you put your finger on your monitor/touch screen where this text is, you have touched my work and my person indirectly. I don't know if that makes sense. I have typed code to make this website work through my keyboard which flipped a couple of 0's and 1's in my computer then shipped it to a place to serve this data to users who come looking for it, which then send this data to your device and it appears on your screen that you are physically touching whether through touch screen or keyboard and mouse. Either way what I am trying to say is that you are physically interacting with my work. If this doesn't make sense to you, you can proceed and label me an idiot. If this does make sense to you, then I hope a certain region of your brain was tickled. Goodnight (9:47PM).