WordCrafter09: Just About Finished With The Name-Transitioning Thing

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.

Friday, September 11, 2015

Just About Finished With The Name-Transitioning Thing

Although, with the record-breaking heat/humidity we've had this first half of September, it's been very tempting to write yet another "foundation post" about how all those super hot and humid days (not all just in September, of course) have posed their own challenges with the walking/carrying weight thing, I decided that just mentioning the heat would be a good way to end the "foundation" posts on this particular page.

The "Writing by ME Whelan" blog is the one I'll be using at this point (at least for any "whatever-blah-blah-blah"-I-feel-like-writing" type of posting). There's still a little changing-around of the other two links that has to be done. I figure, though, on this particular blog I don't have to be a stickler for professionalism. :/

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About "WordCrafter 09"/This Blog

When I started this blog it was with the idea of having a nice, separate, clean, "author blog" (separate from any number of other things I have online). I thought it would be a good space for posting some things that I didn't think belonged on HubPages (under this name). The "09" is the dead give-away for when, exactly, I came up with the name. (It's not easy to think up a writing-/words- related name that's not already taken.)

Since my plan was to tie in this blog with some of my creative non-fiction and/or poetry/verse (maybe), rather than less "fluffy" writing; the use of "crafter" seemed OK. After all, when people do creative writing "crafting" seems like an appropriate enough word.

Since I've now decided to resurrect the blog and name in association with the name on HubPages (or elsewhere), the "crafter" part of the name is kind of concerning; because I now don't plan to limit the blog to just "fluffier" stuff; and "crafter" hardly conjures up the image of objective accuracy. I can't worry about that right now. The five-year-old HubPages account shows my real name now; and I still want a clean, separate, place to associate with that account (at least for now).

I know that there are times when a person who is said to have "a way with words" may decide to "spin" what is supposed to be straight, accurate, information. It's a disadvantage and suspicion that anyone known in personal life "to have kind of a way with words". It's a subject for another time, place, and maybe even a Hub. For now, I just want to make it clear that "crafter" shouldn't create the impression of "spinning" or otherwise straying from complete and objective accuracy.

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.