I'm back, as it were. I stopped posting when I started some contract work, as the type of posting I did just required too much time to write, and I just didn't have it. Or so I claimed to myself. After a while of working, I just fell into a slump. It wasn't too bad when I was employed, since I still felt productive on some level, but once the contract ended I fell completely into said slump. Now here I am, months later, and though my life has changed since then I still haven't gotten back into things. That changes now. I felt better about myself when I was making significant forward momentum, and I intend to reclaim that. Even just writing this helps some.
The problem, however, is that even when I was doing well, I still wasn't posting here much. I'm going to change that, and to that end I'm going to change the kind of posts I make. The heavily-researched and cited posts are not sustainable, as much as I enjoy writing them. Even cutting down on the citations isn't enough, so I'm going to add new types of posts, I think. I will never be the type to complain about my personal life on the internet, ever. What I may do is write shorter, well, ramblings on topics that just came to mind. By definition these will be less thought out than the pieces I've already posted, and as such probably even less reasoned and convincing than my longer stuff.
Another possibility that I've been toying with is posting fictional work. I am something of an amateur author, though I've not made any of my original works available to the public. That may change, and probably should change if I ever intend on being more than a rank amateur.
The third option is to post information on my personal projects. This is primarily programming work that I'm doing for a variety of reasons, primarily either to learn a new tool/language or to work towards some software I want to have for myself. Posting this could be particularly beneficial, since it would force me to think more about it and finish more of what I've started.
So what am I going to do? Probably some of all of these, and writing up some of my brain-crack so it no longer bothers me. We'll see. I'll do what I have to in order to post more often, as part of my greater attempt to forcibly pull myself out of this slump. I will make this work, I just have to figure out what it will take.
