I’ve been thinking about creating a blog for a good while now, and seeing my sister find a rewarding creative outlet with her own has finally pushed me to flex my own blog-writing skills. If I have any remains to be seen, but I think a blog will be an interesting project for me to work on and practice designing. I suppose the reason I deliberated so long over whether to make a blog is mostly due to the fact that I have no idea what I’d write about. Sure, it’s easy to say “Oh, just make it like a diary” or “make daily updates about your adventures” but when it comes down to it, I’m a less-than-interesting guy whose last diary entry ever made was in August 2012, and who struggled for a good five minutes to do the simple task of inventing a URL for this site. Still, I’d like to have practice with blogging and perhaps now that I have a means of easily writing and publishing my thoughts, I’ll discover I have more to talk about than I initially thought.
Another factor in my creation of this blog is one of my college courses, a Computer Information Systems class where I’ll be spending a lot of time creating, designing, and writing websites. I figure if I practice with the most basic of website creation tools (this site) it certainly won’t hurt my understanding of the more complex aspects of this type of thing. A couple of the goals I’ve made in the creation of this blog are:
- To practice and improve my writing ability,
- To learn some basic background knowledge on how sites are created,
- To read other blogs and learn from the more experienced,
- To keep up regular posts at least through the Spring 2015 Semester, and finally
- To figure out how to manage Bulleted Lists better, because this took a while to do!
Hopefully over time I’ll become better at expressing interesting things I do or think, and will be able to articulate them better as well. Maybe I’ll regret having such a lengthy and difficult URL/site name too (incidentally it’s one of my favorite Latin phrases: “Fame comes too late to the dead“) but for now it will suit my purposes just fine. Here’s hoping I can keep up with regular posts and that they don’t bore anyone (including myself) to tears. We’ll just have to wait and see.
Cineri Gloria Sera Venit 