Blogging can be a pain in the ass. Every few weeks I start feeling guilty about not posting, so I come up with some topic—usually whatever is on my mind at the moment, or something marginally neat from the internet—and I write something about it and click Publish. After that I don’t think about the blog for a few weeks.

But earlier this week, I started reading On Writing Well, and now I’m thinking about the whole endeavour in a different light. I want to make this blog into a practice ground for improving my writing. In the absolutely ideal sense, it would become a portfolio. Premonitions are creeping up on me, and I suspect that I will need one sooner than I’d like to admit.

Here’s the new plan: start posting at least once a week, start proof-reading properly. By knowing in advance that I’ll have to publish something, hopefully I’ll be urged to come up with a topic in advance, and hopefully by the time publishing day comes around—I’m going to say Friday—I’ll have typed and edited it. The almost daunting goal is to make the blog interesting, which is good for all of us.

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