Looking back on posts
Herman's Resurfacing posts about bringing back older work was a fun read and a nice idea. None of my writing here is 'old' but this is my three hundredth post so I thought I would look back at some of my favourites.
- Paintings of paintings was in a 'cool things from around the internet' newsletter - it's always fun to encounter one's own posts out in the wild. It also apparently made its way onto some sort of Spanish Reddit? The internet, you know
- I really enjoyed making Joyride into something very different from the rest of my posts
- Creativity and curiosity kicked off some very fun thoughts
- Victorian etiquette manuals has been a real talking point and I love that
- Too much fun with CSS really was too much fun and I've done a bunch more styles and new pages since then (sitemap)
- my community posts thinking about community, good community, ready to bury bodies, we are the village, and social batteries. They felt like big vulnerable stretches and then so many people were so lovely about them, it was great
- a minor theme has been dishonouring the ghost of Gertrude Stein: forget grammar apps and think about potatoes, scenes, on her biography, and probably elsewhere
- everything I've written as a response to other people, whether it was a carnival, a direct prompt, or inspired by their post. Also the links posts, I love doing them
- people seemed to especially enjoy conversations with a five-year-old about parties and I still love conversations with a two-year-old about witches
A couple of months ago I wrote Things I want to do with my website and I think I've done pretty well with those ideas. Working on the digital garden side in Notes, writing about books, some zines. Yesterday I wrote about what I've learned from blogging, which is a lot.
Next up I'm working on more ideas about community, books I've read, and personal canon entries. More pages collecting things together. I'd like to do a challenge, Blaugust probably. I enjoy the constraint and the pressure of writing frequently and I think that would be really fun.
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