It's the End of January

Today is January 31. Not a remarkable day, really; it's the last day of the first month of the year, just about the end of the pro football season but before baseball, cold enough that I never want to go outside, and yet just close enough to spring that I can start lusting for warm weather. So, January 31 sucks.

In year's past, though, it was the day before the "blog a day" month. Back in the old days when blogs were still kind of a thing and websites gave their users tools to share their thoughts outside of simply comments and tweets (and, in a way, do some of their content-baking work for them), the 1up.com community universally agreed that February would be used for dumping out your brain on the internet every day. Like an unofficial NaNoWriMo for the nerd set, it was challenging enough that you needed to start getting creative with the work you were putting out there, but since it was the shortest month of the year, the commitment wasn't very overwhelming (even though we're only talking two or three extra days here). Of course, I never made it all the way through the month myself.

Long story short, I'm going to give it the old college try again starting tomorrow. I haven't really gotten a chance to write on this blog for a while, and I basically pivoted what I was doing over the last year and a half to the Annotated Symphony of the Night project, so even the stuff I was writing was devoted to a specific thing. I miss it, I suppose. Writing took something of a back seat since starting the video stuff, even though there was still script writing to take care of and various freelance projects that come and go. Writing for myself, though, wasn't even on the radar. I think the February tradition of a blog a day is inherently pure and good insomuch that writing for yourself is the same, so let's give it another shot this year.

Plus, I have a freelance piece on deadline for the beginning of March, and this will get me back into fighting shape. Fair warning, the next month will probably all be centered around a few central themes, so it might not be as freewheeling. I think you'll like it, though.