Back in 2004, I, like many other people in the WordPress community began blogging. We didn’t, I don’t think, get into WordPress because we wanted to write code or build a career. We got into it because we wanted to write. Our natural talent and curiosity took over, however, and we began writing code.

At some point, I broke this blog apart into other blogs… a personal blog, a photoblog, a sports blog, etc. All of these are spread around and in various forms of repair or disrepair.

I have nearly 1k posts here, down from 2k a few years ago when I did a purge. But I’ve only written 12 since January of 2013. TWELVE. Sadly, life takes over and work takes over and, at least for me, the artificial silos of “this blog is for professional writing, this one is for personal writing” and so on has kept me from deciding… I want to write again.

As Twitter became ubiquitous, most of my professional interactions began happening over there. Instead of my photoblog, I’ve leaned more on Flickr and Instagram. All of this has left my blogging in a sad state of disrepair.

My friends and colleagues, Brad Williams and Dre Armeda, have realized that they really want to get back to what they love doing and that’s writing more. Brad has committed to writing 100 posts in 2018 (a goal that is ludicrous for me).

Dre has begun a Facebook group (feel free to join if you plan on joining us in this exercise!) where members can encourage each other and share their content. Not everyone is committing to 100 posts. For me, I’m committing to one post per week.

I suppose now is a good time to explain that the invite to join me in this exercise does not mean you have to write about WordPress, or for that matter, any topic whatsoever. If you want to pick a topic (law, science, dating, oncology!!!), feel free. Or talk about any multitude of topics. But the exercise is more about the therapeutic exercise of writing and not so much about what you’re writing about. And it’s to give you (and me!) peers to keep us going forward.

This does count as the first post of this new commitment. I’ll have another one next week.

As part of this whole reboot, personally, I plan to consolidate my various blogs into this one. Since my online name is technosailor, it seems appropriate that technosailor.com should be the hub for everything else.

I’ll also be building a new theme that will accommodate all of this merged content and, frankly, WordPress has come far enough since I was blogging regularly, that it’s completely likely I can leverage new forms of content that I didn’t have access to before.

Anyways, I’m off track. Please do join me in this experiment. It will be fun!