The News
Starting this week, L'histoire de sa vie will no longer be updated five times a week. The new number will be closer to a soft three. Soft meaning there may be weeks where I have four or even five updates. I hope to have no weeks with fewer than three, unless I'm on vacation and can't find guests to write.
Why?
Updating five times a week, now that my life is a little more routine than it was in college, has become very difficult. I believe the quality of posts has suffered as a result. My "backup list" of blog post ideas is empty. I find myself straining to fill this with anything but garbage. And that bothers me.
For a blog to be successful means different things to different people. For me, it means writing my opinions, adventures, and other words that I've classified as 'ridiculum' in a convenient, quality manner. It's not a matter of who reads it or who comments: though I do love posts to evolve into a conversation, I don't consider this a matter of success.
However, in the recent months, the metric that I've been holding to has been quantity, not quality, of posts, and for that reason I cannot continue with the current structure.
Before this post, I've written 670 posts over a period of 939 days. According to my math, I'm ahead of schedule by 0.714 posts. So basically I've held strong to my five-per-week schedule. But at what cost? Pictures are no longer part of my posts (something I really liked before), topics have been discussed more frequently than I'd like, and at times (although thankfully this is still rare), writing feels like a chore.
So! I'm hoping that a relaxed schedule will fix this. I plan to revisit this in several months and see how three-per-week has worked for me. Hopefully this will be a good change.
What's Next?
I think this is the only major change that needs to be made. However, outside forces beyond my control may force my hand to make changes to the blog's theme (I really don't want to do this but may have no choice). In addition, I'm exploring different ways to make this a little more Nathan-esque and less bloglike. In the over two and a half years since I began this, my attitude toward this vehicle has changed radically and I believe the site itself has failed to adapt to this attitude shift.
In the future, we'll see where that goes. I welcome any suggestions, but this is a very long term project, and changes will likely continue to happen very slowly.
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