Shrouded Musings

  As I stated in my first post, I doubt I’ll get much traffic and, chances are, not any comments on this blog. I believe the main reason is I’m not selling anything on my pages. According to Intuit MailChimp , “The most common type of blog is the small business blog. These blogs are written to market a business's products or services to prospective customers.” From what I’ve learned through my visits to blog platform websites, this statement is accurate. Approximately fifteen years ago, this utterance wasn’t truth, although the signs that it was headed in that direction were obvious. Back then, the number of person blogs outweighed the business ones. Having a personal blog is hopefully going to self-validate my ability to write; will establish the soundness, accuracy, legitimacy. At least, I’m hoping it does for me. Whether it has that effect on anyone else is of no consequence. Anyway, not at this point in the experiment. I question the strategy of having categories, ...

  The last time I published a blog post was 01/16/2023. At the time, I had come to the conclusion the hours spent writing posts, reading the blog posts of others, and the general ordeal of appearing online in hopes of drawing readers wasn’t for me anymore. Unwittingly, by leaving the internet, I found myself groping for words more often, wondering what more I could write in the current piece I was working on, and, by and large, losing all motivation before I was even half done with the piece. Writing became an albatross I was having a terrible time lugging around. Now realizing the negative aspects of my absence from the blogging habit, here I am, once again, stepping into the realm of putting words out there for everyone to see. I still don’t want to deal with all the pageantry of social media, or even bother with comments for the most part. Neither one should be that much of a problem, seeing I’ve never been that popular on the internet anyway. The experiment begins. ...