Another Beginning
I've lost count how many times throughout the years I've agonised over that "all important" first blog post, not to mention all those attempts where I've just stared at a blank editor window for so long that I've just given up and closed the tab.
I moved away from Wordpress and all of it's clutter to try and get back to the thing I actually want to do: to just write and not worry about all that other nonsense. I don't care about SEO, I don't care about making my site look like 99.9% of the internet. I do care about the amount of money I've spent on WP themes that I've then ended up hating but that's hindsight for you.
I would like to make this place look a little prettier or at least, a little more me, but I don't want the pursuit of aesthetics to get in the way of actually doing the thing that I have a blog for. It's irritating me slightly greatly that I went from being a person who would easily turn a scrawled design in a paper notebook into an actual webpage, written up manually in Notepad, to being someone who is having to constantly alt-tab to the Bear Markdown Cheatsheet to see what I'm doing. I'm hoping that if I can get the content creation bit (in the "I have some stuff that I made" sense, not in the "Like! Share! Subscribe!" sense) down and without having to worry too much about it, it'll free up some space in my brain to learn how to code again. Don't get me wrong, love Bear, love the philosophy behind it but I own my own domain and server, it seems silly having both, you know?
So, why am I writing again? Simple. I absolutely despise social media. At least, what it's turned into now - before these sites were just trash cans full of clickbait, I loved all the little corners of the internet and met some really good and interesting people there. Some of them I'm still in touch with but admittedly, it's not something I'm great at and the more the original sites fragment and people are spread out over a dozen different places... I just can't keep up with it. I tried. I made accounts in all of the new places but I find the sites so draining that I don't even have the energy to interact with the people I signed up to keep in touch with.
Anyway, I can't control where people go, where they spend their time and energy. I wouldn't want to, gosh, imagine the paperwork? No thank you. The thing I can control is where I put my time and energy, so that if anyone out there is thinking "Hey, I wonder how Adelle is doing?" then here I am, in one place, somewhere easy to find.
I'm doing okay. I hope you are too ❤️