8 Jan 2012
1 CommentMy Plan for the New Year 2012 -Cleaning out My Closet. Not a Resolution, But a Promise All the Same
Well…it’s a new year…again.
And as usual, I must begin with apologizing for not posting anything for a while. Just had my first kid on December 16th and all the time leading up to it and all the time since, I’ve been trying to make money and do right, for the most part.
Well, you don’t wanna hear about the personal stuff. Here’s what’s gonna be happening around here for the O-12
I am cleaning out my closet. Yea, the whole thing if possible.
I have YEARS of unfinished projects hanging around. I’m talkin, lots…and lots of stuff. Poems, half-finished songs and lyrics, half-finished articles, file after file of ideas that I typed down, mad audio clips of half rhymes, ideas and thoughts; and so on and so on. There are notebooks, papers, and writing tablets FULL of more of the same.
I would like to spend all this year getting rid of that stuff, finishing the half-done projects no matter how I feel about them. If I feel it is hopeless, I’ll just get rid of em or release the ideas into the wild. I wanted to post most of what I do to this blog, but I figure that with so much stuff, I can put something here and something there. For instance, I started writing an article for a television show I watched. I was gonna post it here, but I didn’t like it. At the same time, I didn’t wanna just toss it neither, I spent time on it after all. So, I gave it up to an article site. I’ll probably write an article about content mills and article writing sites for those that may be interested, but I won’t post it here, it’ll be on another of my blogs.
But yes, 2012 is like my final hurrah. I figured 2012 is a good year to do this. It coincides with many other things that I hoped would happen for me this year (yup, been looking forward to 2012 since I was a teenager) – Hopefully, if all goes well, I’ll be starting up my creative juices again in 2013 (should civilization still be around🙂 a much better artist. What that means is, I will be trying hard not to start ANYTHING new this year. Gotta get this old shit outta here!
If you would like me to contribute any of this content to your projects, I’d be happy to do so. Verses, hooks, poetry whatever. I got words for ya! For ANY reason. And I love collaboration.
Anywho, that is all for now. I’m currently going through a folder with hundreds of .txt files in it, trying to make some sense of em and organize em…for YOU dammit, for you.
I also need to update the look of this site…desperately.
I’ll keep ya posted 🙂
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3 Sep 2012
0 CommentsAll Purpose Blogging – Should it Be Done?
In all honesty, I find it hard to reconcile my different thoughts. For instance, I thought of blogging about why I find it necessary to constantly defend Obama even though I don’t care too much for him or any high-ranking politician for that matter. At the same time, I conceived of a post about different types of pussy and why I would prefer one type to another. Simultaneously, I find myself wanting to talk about a particular anime series. Maybe that gives you a little insight into my mind as well as why I hesitate to blog at all. I mean, is a person even allowed to put so many types of things into a single blog?
An SEO expert would probably tell me that it’s blog suicide to veer so much from having only one focus or core topic. It’s a problem I have always dealt with in one way or another. I think the problem is that I fear alienating any one group of people. Now, personally, there’s much I don’t give a fuck about. But I do give a fuck about the people who give a fuck about what I have to say. Unfortunately, since I talk in so many different voices, I attract different types of people. The folks that come through because they want to read more of my poetry may be turned off by my dubious attempts at music. Those that may have read something poignant or uplifting on my Twitter feed may be a little turned off when they get a whiff of my political views or see just how vulgar my language can get.
I probably shouldn’t care. At the same time, I hate to turn anybody away. One reason I enjoy the WordPress blogging platform is because it uses categories and each category can have its own feed. That way the poetry readers can see just the poetry and the people who enjoy my random thoughts can read just those. However, that does not always work. It all depends on how people find my site.
I don’t want to talk about my writing efforts on one page and expound on why niggas who sell crack need to either expand or stop hustling on another. After all, it’s all me. In fact, when I got my domain, my first thought was that I could finally just let it all out in one place.
Where do I put my children’s poetry? Is it right that I have stuff suitable for kids located right next to where I talk about the virtues of prostitution? Probably not. I am dynamic, and some of my stuff is for one group and not another. So where does that leave me? Should I say fuck it and just put it all out there on this one site? I don’t want a bunch of separate blogs, websites and pseudonyms – that way madness lies.
I have noticed that a certain level of celebrity allows you to ignore aspects of this conundrum. It seems that once you already have a following, it doesn’t matter as much. Besides all that, I figure that as a writer for hire, I should also be able to show that I can write about any topic (which I can!).
Any thoughts on this? Leave a comment below 🙂
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