What to do with this blog?
I posted before that I will be writing a Magic column for a new site here shortly. With any luck, my first column will go up on or not too far after the weekend launch of Innistrad. I’ll be sure to post a link. However, I’m still struggling with the question of what to do with this blog. I enjoy being on Tumblr and I definitely feel like I want to be writing casually somewhere that is not Twitter and not my column series. But I also don’t want to be duplicating or diluting my content from the column series.
Obviously, this is all moot if I suck as a Magic writer. But hoping that doesn’t turn out to be the case, I’d appreciate your thoughts on what you’d enjoy to see here. Here’s an initial list of possibilities:
- Revert to a poetry blog. This would include some combination of two approaches. Either 1) posting poetry, which would duplicate a lot of what is on Chapbook (and will be, as I will start writing again more regularly soon) or 2) a blog where people can submit poetry to me for commentary, critique, advice or just a guaranteed read.
- Continue to write about Magic, but just try not to overlap the column too much. More anecdotes, maybe.
- A typical “whatever I happen to be thinking about” blog. No formal game plan. Just content. But, and I swear this on my signed English Mana Drain, I will not simply re-blog “meme” images all day. Some combination of the above options is likely, along with patter about work, life, parenting, design, etc.
If I wanted to just write for myself, I could just type things up and then email them to my own email address. Or pipe everything to /dev/null (Dustin, note: “to” /dev/null/, not “over” /dev/null/). So I’d really like to know what would interest you. Leave a comment on the post, if you have an opinion or another suggestion. You can also photo reply with original nudity or use the “answer this” Tumblr feature, but I would prefer comments because they are centralized and easy to tally.
To help you think, here is an old picture I took of a sign which is dangerously open to interpretation. Enjoy:
