NaBloPoMo

Spotted this just in time to jump onboard: National Blog Posting Month. Because the world has a severe shortage of poorly edited, rambling personal thoughts being batted about the internet.

Actually, it does seem that most of the personal blogs I used to read and enjoy have gone dark in the past few years. Perhaps Facebook ate them, or sucked away all the exhibitionistic desire to discuss one's thoughts before the stage of all the world that once fueled the blogging craze. If so, I don't consider it a particularly good trade. Facebook is good for posting pictures, links, and very short blurbs, but terrible as a medium for in depth personal writing.

Real life changes have affected my own little mini-biome within the blogosphere as well, as I've lost contact with various individuals who once formed connecting threads, or nexii of connection, to other individuals. Some of them are active on Facebook, posting pictures and links and "likes" and comments, but not writing much beyond a sentence or two in length. Others, presumably with more to say but less desire for attention from this quarter, are still blogging away behind password-walls. Others have vanished entirely or moved on to other addresses and activities, leaving only the record of their past postings as a kind of neglected monument. Old threads detach and drift away; new threads may form.

Anyway. Perhaps it will be entertaining to respond to some of NaBloPoMo's writing prompts. Number one is easy. "How would your life change if you didn't have rent or a mortgage to pay, i.e., if your housing was free?" That's easy. I would have some hope of paying off credit cards.

See? Like I said. In depth personal writing.