Mombie – a bit of everything

blog laryngitis

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I feel like I have lost my blog voice. 

Once upon a time, let’s, for the sake of argument, call it 2003, I had a definite voice.  It was a chatty, friendly sort of tone that referenced personal goings-on without getting into too much detail.  I had shout-outs to friends and family who were helping me out, or doing something cool,  and I used a lot of brackets and asterisks.

Somehow in the time since then I have gotten more formal.  I think that as my time to write got shorter I became more conscious of what I was saying and how I was saying it.  I also discovered some other blogs with similar quirks (shocking! I know!) and that put me off  a bit – I didn’t want to seem like I was copying them.

Anyway, I’m trying to get back to frequently blogging, I think that frequency will bring back the voice I liked and help me ditch the self-consciousness.

Let’s see how that pans out.

Streamlining

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I’m changing to wordpress because I am tired of dealing with the html details. I love my old site design (http://www.mombie.com/oldsite.html) but between working on multiple computers and creating my own archives and so on and so on, I’m just tired of fussing with details.

It may take me a while to make this one pretty but at least I can set it up, do some writing from ANYWHERE and then just publish it with out all the fuss.

This is just part of my plan to ‘automate’ as much of my life as possible. I’ve read a ton of personal development and time management books (a shock, I know!) and many of them say that the key to managing your time and your mind is to get as much of your life on autopilot as possible so you you can stick to the things that matter to you.

Writing matters to me. The details of getting writing online bog me down. Hence, new blogging method.