Amber Luck

So. I’ve moved. There are several reasons behind my decision to do so, foremost among them being that Jonathan suggested it and then offered to do all the heavy lifting. I simply don’t have the skills to make a web page look like this, so if you think it’s pretty, direct your compliments to him.

Jonathan’s offer was well-timed, though, because lately I’ve been thinking about doing something different with my blog. If you try to keep up with my writing, you’ve probably noticed that that’s become a much easier task over the past several months. There was a time when I wrote multiple blog posts a week, but that dwindled to once a week on average, and now…. Well, by now some of you probably wonder every time I write a post if it’s the last thing you’ll ever hear from me. The fact is, my underlying reasons for keeping a blog have shifted, but until now, I hadn’t changed my use of the space accordingly. What started as a way to strengthen my connection to a real-life community has evolved into the only connection, in some cases, that my friends and family have to my life. Moreover, my blog puts a face to the professional writing I do online. For both of these purposes, my old blog was not working. It wasn’t a professional-quality website, and a half-hearted post every two and a half weeks can’t give my distant friends and family much of a sense of what I’m experiencing.

That’s why, with this new blog, I will write more often. Promise. I have some partially-formed ideas that I think will lend an overall structure to my writing, motivate me to write more, and — I’m hoping — help me overcome this debilitating lack of inspiration I’ve been wrestling with. I can’t physically move out of the city now, so I’m going to try to move out of it in my head. More on that later.

For now, thanks for following me here. I’ll try to make it worth the effort.