Focusing my Blog
I am going to throw some ideas out there, I just want to write them down and see what sticks. As readers, I really need your hep. Please comment. These are subjects I already write about, but I want to give this site some direction. Or maybe these are other sites altogether. This is in some ways about branding myself as a writer. What I am looking for a way to write about something other than myself . I want to create something greater than me.
I have already eliminated any kind of nerdy site, while those things interest me greatly. There are much more committed fans of comics, video games, RPGs, gadgets and tall things media out there that are doing fine work. I am not interested in competing in that field.
I am also open to doing some sort of group blogging, a collective if you will like Boing Boing. So if you are reading this, and you are also writing, lets talk and make some magic.
Spaceman: Urban Philosopher. The quest for the Philosopher’s Stone. Giving a modern philisophical bent towards the blog, writing about the courses I’ve taken, the books I read, the magic and alchemy I practice. This is a aspect of myself that is very important and that I am passionate about, but that I somewhat pass over when I write now. Everything from Crowley to Landmark, from Harry Potter to Tim Leary, from Sex Magick to Echart Tolle and Oprah. I always wanted to call myself a philosopher.
The Crasher’s Guide. I am really seeing that we are on the cusp of some serious and challenging time. I shudder to say that we are in the midst of a total economic crash. I fear that there is no way out. This blog would be about the ways to deal with the hard times. Money saving ideas, gardening tips, basic survival, and how to have fun at the end of the world. My thought is that whatever is going to happen with the economy is what is going to happen. The trick will be to stay afloat, stay light, bob, weave, have fun. But, I don’t want to be a doom prophesier. Ultimately, I want to foster the coming of a new kind of economy, one that works for everyone.
The New Networker I know a lot of people. I like to think of myself as a natural networker of people. I have been looking at ways to help everyone in these times. So many of my friends have amazing skills, companies, things for sale, etc. I am thinking a site kind of like Craig’s List, only on a smaller scale, specific to my community here in LA. Film people, event people, performers, entrepreneurs, programmers, teachers, builders, photographers, writers, artists, coordinators…and on and on! I want to bring all of us together to support each other. A micro social network. Again, I want to create a new kind of economic way.
The View From Space Already, I have named my blog this. This would be a fictional account, inspired by reality, of the world from a point of view of a dimensional traveller trapped her on our earth. It would be a view of the planet and our culture from the point of view of Spaceman, who is an outsider. I know this could be really fun. Though, there wouldn’t be much of this “ten things I love about my life” stuff. Instead it would be more of a “why can’t you people see how messed up your world is, and here’s what you can do to fix it.” Spaceman is an aspect of my self, my muse if you will, my genius, my daemon. It might be very very valuable to channel him.
Mini Sagas Mini sagas only. This is the least likely. I love the mini sagas, and I intend to continue them for the year, But I want to distinguish them from these ideas. No matter what, they will probably end up somewhere else. It is a great exercise in creativity and I look forward to collecting them.
So those are the ideas I have now. All of them, except the networker site are also possible ways to release a book as small chunks to be collected later. Please give me some input, friends.
February 21st, 2009 at 3:39 am
My vote is with the last two. I find them the most compelling to read, and it’s definitely what keeps me coming back. It’s not that I don’t want to read the rest, and I do read them, clearly, but maybe the content is instead two blogs, or maybe you can have two tabs or something?
February 21st, 2009 at 5:05 pm
Call me crazy, but I think you just made a very nice list of buttons that should
be at the top of your website, taking you to the various topics
Urban Philosopher –the crashers guide–new networking–view from space–mini blog
right? and you can have guest writers on some of the channels- i volunteer for the crashers guide.