I’ve been doing some blog housekeeping, repairing or deleting old, broken links, removing reviews of indie books that aren’t available anywhere anymore, and fixing formatting glitches that happened when I exported from the janky old Wordpress site. And in the course of that work, I’ve noted some commonalities in my writing over the years.

First, the number of blog posts with the word random in the title was a ridiculously large number I am not going to share. Yes, I’ve been blogging a long time (since 2006, if I count LiveJournal, which I do) but proportionally, It’s still an absurd number of “random” observations. I’ve been recording diary-ish entries and musings since LONG before 2006, but LJ was the first effort in the blogging format.)

ANYway. Second, I like lists a lot. Shocker, I know. And third, I cyclically get in the way of my own writing by making things more complicated than they need to be. I will blame the ADHD, as the complications are almost always tied into me finding a New Shiny Thing. Distractions are real. The worst ones are the Shiny Things I don’t even like but can’t ignore simply because they’re there. Those are usually Shiny Things the Online Success Experts insist are important, so there’s an extra heft to them, mentally, that makes it hard to set them aside.

But eventually I do get disgusted with them, or the annoyance of dealing with them outweighs the Shiny Distraction of poking at them to see how they work, and I get back to the reason I made the bog in the first place…