WordCrafter09: A Copy Of A Post From My Pen-Name Blog

A Note About This Blog

This is a blog that (as will be clear to anyone who sees it) I started awhile back under the pen-/user-name of "WordCrafter 09". My original plan was to associate it with an account I set up on HubPages, separate from the account I have there under a pen-name (Lisa H. Warren/Lisa H.W). I had some other plans for the blog too, but I didn't do a lot on it. In any case, I've decided to resurrect it (largely because I'm transitioning away from the old pen-name).

Since deciding to resurrect it and make it "the intersection of two different names"; and since at some point I'll de-emphasize it (just as I'm de-emphasing the pen-name, itself), I thought a good use for this blog might be to post some "raw-material type stuff" for later use, reference, and/or polishing up.

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

A Copy Of A Post From My Pen-Name Blog

As the title of this post suggests, the following is a copy of a post I just made on my pen-name blog. I decided to copy it, rather than link to it, because one of these days I may delete any number of blogs. I don't want a big, "all-connected chain" of SOME of the things I have online.

While I continue to move farther away from pages associated with the pen name, my HubPages account associated with it remains up and running. I have my reasons for not closing that account. The main ones are 1) that HubPages remains the only site for writing anywhere near the type of writing that I want to do on someone else's site; and 2) I'm approaching eight years of using that site, and I think - if all goes well for them - the site remains a good one for writers. In the case of the pen-name account, while I have plans to "phase away" from it for the most part there's still some thinking about what I want to do with what's left on there before I figure out what to fix up, what to remove, etc.

There's also some waiting to see if the site takes a clearer direction than appears as of this writing.

In any case, between still having that account up and running and having some other pen-name associated stuff out there here-or-there, my plan is to leave up this blog (again, at least for the time-being) - not because I plan to do more with it than I already have (to the contrary), but because it makes sense to have a place for posting the occasional thing about some pen-name-related matter.

There will probably come a time when I have no reason to want to post any pen-name-stuff-related thoughts. This just is not that time yet. I've got the "WordCrafter09" blog that's been acting as "the intersection" of the pen-name stuff and real-name stuff. With my five-year-old "WordCrafter09" account on HubPages (associated with my real name), I figure I'll do the same thing with that blog as I'm doing with this one - wait and see what happens on/with HubPages before deciding any next steps. (The difference between the two different accounts/names, however, is that the "WordCrafter09" is associated with my real name. So, once (in the midst of making some major changes with different blogs in different stages of development) I decide what, if anything, I'm doing with future material on that account on HubPages; I'll "phase out" the "WordCrafter" blog and use one that's in my own name.

My "project" these days is to figure out how to leave any number of blogs/sites/accounts in some version of "reasonable state", which ones to close, which ones to keep in/return to being "searchable", and build one "monster" of a blog on which I can post whatever I feel like writing without regard for whether there appears to be any "system", rhyme or reason, or specific purpose to it.

What I do with with whatever I have already put together that does have some rhyme/reason will be a case-by-case-basis thing.

For now, this is my update to this particular blog.

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A Note From Awhile Back - That's Still Pretty Much Applies

When I had trouble finding full-time work after a complicated divorce, and in an economy that was about as bad it could get, I thought that the bright side to that otherwise dreary scenario was that working from home meant not being involved in the "rat race". That was true enough; and although there are things about the rat race that I've always kind of liked, there are a lot of things that are great about not having to be involved in it on a daily basis.

It's been years, now, since I've been away from the rat race. I've discovered something, though. It turns out that working from home (and especially if any of that work involves being online very much) can be its own kind of rat race.

The difference between the outside rat race and the more hidden kind that can seem to seep into the cozy environment of a home office (and, believe me, it isn't an "office" as much as it is a desk) (besides the commuter traffic factor) is that the rat race involved in working from home can be disguised as "not a rat race" but can still feel like one.

In any case (and ironically, I suppose, in view of the fact that blogs are online activities), this blog is my attempt to get away from all forms of rat races - and just write what I feel like writing.