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I’m excited to be applying for a little writing job at a major content website, it’s the kind of change I’ve been looking for. I’ve got almost no chance of landing the gig, a monthly retainer project reviewing and writing about digital photography, but just taking the leap of faith to apply feels good.

It’s got me started thinking about other stuff, and I’m working on some skeletal ideas for other blogs. As much fun as it is to ramble about broken toes and quitting music and how much I love the little birdies where I live, I’ve got tons of interests, and I’m interested in forging the discipline of writing regularly about some of them.

I’ve been doing online work of many flavors for years, and I’ve been helping others sort out content and presentation issues as well as marketing challenges for years. I’ve been pretty successful at it, but I never do it for myself. The fact that I can help others is great, actually, and I’m happy to have found an outlet for some of my energies. But to apply some of that energy to my own work is kind of exciting, and in the rare cases where I’ve done it in the past, it’s felt very right. I almost feel as though when I only do it for other people, that I’m only “talking the talk,” and it feels good to walk the walk sometimes. The idea is a little silly; just because you’re a librarian by day doesn’t mean your TV Guides need to be organized in your house or something, but still…

I have a couple ideas that will be quick and easy to start, and I’m asking friends and family for feedback and input about what they’d be interested in reading about and figuring out where that crosses with my own (weird) interests. Not surprisingly, people who don’t live inside my head aren’t as tuned into my current interests as the person who does, but it’s always interesting to get a less biased (or differently biased) view.

So, one way or another, I’m going to do a lot more writing over the next period. If I can land a real gig or two, fantastic, if not, I’ll get my own self busy, and the practice will do me good. It’ll be fun until it isn’t any longer.

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