Hey hey…little housekeeping update. I’ve done a good amount of site cleanup and maintenance, and while there’s always more to do, the site is “live” for all intents and purposes. There are links to my social profiles, everything is categorized, and I’ve created enough content that I can stick to a weekly update schedule (every Tuesday at 11 am eastern).
As far as content, this site is the hub; I’ll publish some types of content (like video) on other platforms, but my intention is to have it all linked from here. For example, I’ll be doing readings of poetry as video content on TikTok, and I’ll add links to those performances on the blog posts (and I’ll flag them as such so you can find them).
Speaking of social media, I’m still learning how to post vs. linking to content and other promotional stuff. I don’t want to post the same thing in 12 different places, but I also want to make people aware of what I’m doing from different platforms and send them to the same spot. Things were easier when there were just blogs!
But I’m not complaining. I would love it if you followed me on Facebook, Instagram, and/or TikTok, and please like and subscribe and so forth.
All that said, it feels…anticlimactic. I know it’s not realistic to expect the floodgates to open and to get thousands of subscribers on day one, but…it’s hard to remember that every “instant success story” was plugging away at their craft in one way, shape or form for years or decades before they got their shot. Even Taylor Swift’s latest chart-topper is a four-year-old song (that it was published on a three-times platinum internationally-successful album is a fact that I will conveniently ignore and dismiss).
So I’m creating stuff, and I have a place to put it, and that feels good. I’m trying to remember that having fun and being creative is the goal, and other stuff is secondary.
Hey again! Thanks for just reading this far. I hope you find some stuff here that makes it worth the visit, and I hope you keep coming back. I’ll keep making stuff in the meantime.
—JR 
