There’s nothing particularly novel about the pickle in which I currently find myself. After gutting my way through some major projects this summer, with bewilderingly mixed results, I hit the proverbial wall around Labor Day. Daunted by the challenges of starting anything new, I instead chose to dither—you’d gasp if I told you how much time I’ve recently spent reading up on failed Roman emperors, the making of Bad Lieutenant, and everything in between.
It recently dawned on me that I can’t last much longer in this earthly Purgatory, so it’s time to make some important changes. And one of them is opening Microkhan back up, albeit with a very different mission statement. The goal now is simply to get back in the habit of writing every day: I often feel like weeks fly by without me committing any worthwhile to the page, and that state of affairs leads to a bit of anxiety when deadlines inevitably loom. So starting now, I’m going to aim to start every weekday by jotting something down in this here WordPress blog—a decidedly retro way to try and get myself back on track after what’s been a downer of a stretch.
To make things easy on myself, I’m not going to add any visual material, nor am I going to have any multi-page posts. I may just riff on something I watched or read, or dig up a curio from the bookmarks I’ve been compiling since 2010. I can also foresee scribbling a few earnest thoughts about how the writing game is changing at ostrich-like speed. In short, this is gonna be some public scratch paper for me, a way to work through the doldrums with few rules or expectations. My hope is that a few months down the line, after scores of entires, I’ll be able to look back and realize this exercise played a role in getting me somewhere better.
So: See you tomorrow. And in the meantime, read up on how much people stuck in Antarctica enjoy a good festival.
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