Long Time, No Post

If you don’t publish a long form post for over a year, are you still a blogger? In my head, I’ve been a blogger since the late nineties. I’ve gone through stretches of heavy posting, and light posting, but just as I was restarting the habit a little more strongly with joining Micro.blog—which I think is a near-ideal blend of short-form “microblogging” and long-form “traditional blogging”, I’ve gone cold. My last post that was more than a couple paragraphs was over a year ago. In iA Writer, where I compose my long-form posts, I have 6 unpublished multi-paragraph stubs between then and now. Why the stall? Honestly, I have no idea. As my children have become middle and late teenagers, in a sense I have more time than any time in the past nearly (!) two decades. Perhaps one of the reasons is feedback. One of the hallmarks of micro.blog is that they do not have likes or even comments (unless you implement them, and I’ve chosen not to). Without these, I have no signal that anyone is even…

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