Forum Follies

I haven't written anything of a personal nature here in some time. The time frame roughly jibes with the starting up of a new forum.
The forum hasn't officially launched but 20 or so people are putting together content while others are hacking away at the template to customize it.

The people involved are ex-members of the very first forum I joined (all the way back last June ;).
I had no idea what an all-encompassing experience that was going to be, nor did I realize that it would be abruptly cut short on the whim of the then 20 y.o. owner.

The open journal area of the forum was what was nearest to my heart, and the day I was axed was the same day that I started a journal at Blogger.
It was some mean feat trying to customize that thing, adding photo capacity, a comment section, and a guest book, using freebie-ware. I knew almost nothing of HTML (I'm no expert now) but I am quite stubborn, and after a month I had what I considered to be a pretty good blog in place.

A month after that I moved here--and started all over again cobbling together a presentable face to represent me.
I chose TypePad because it got a good review in a computer magazine. Luckily, it's turned out quite well.

So I was humming along just fine. I continued to discover excellent blogs that are new to me, divvying up my reading and commenting on them, and my maintenance of this.
I had it down to a system, making sure I visited my blogger friends at least every two days.

Can't say I've been able to do that this past week or so.
The new site is eating scads of time. It's odd to be back among people that stayed behind at the old forum until they too were unjustly severed from it or were pushed out.

I'm not sure what I'm getting into with the new place. I do know what I have here though and I guess that brings me to my conundrum.

I suppose I'm jumping way ahead as the new forum hasn't yet launched and who's to say where the pieces will fall? I think though that I just this moment made the decision that my real place is here.

I know positively that the people that take the time to come here are worth me putting the effort in. And I need right now to keep writing--for me.

Comments

[Cyn]

Dan :blush:, thank you so much--you are absolutely right about writing for oneself.
It is so much more enjoyable and (hopefeully) the end result reflects that.

[Dan]

Cyn - you're an excellent writer. Don't worry about your audience -- write always for yourself and your audience will come (but you know that). You've opened a window into your life, which many bloggers are too timid to do. They blog, but keep the shades drawn. Keep doing what you're doing. And keep the shades open!

Dan

[Anne]

Forum Shmorum. Stay around here! I'd miss you too much :>

[Rose]

I'm glad you're staying... (I missed the whole forum thing; have to read up.)

[Cyn]

Yeah, it is--and the blurrier things get there, the clearer things seem here. ;)

[Rob]

It's nice to know where home is, isn't it? :)