Saturday, January 2, 2010

The Unreturn.

It should be pretty clear to anyone who's followed this thing that the reason I don't post here anymore is because I've been busy with writing for Bitmob. It's not a job, more like volunteer work in the sense that I don't get paid. Still, it's a good learning experience to write on a regular basis, so you can get more familiar with putting your thoughts on paper (or, as the case may be, on GoogleDocs).

I cross-posted a lot of the content I wrote for Bitmob on here for some reason, but stopped because it's pretty likely that no one is going to come here for the definitive review on anything. I used this thing as a place to put all of my work in one place, but Bitmob does a pretty good job at keeping all of that stuff in check, and if I ever need to whip out a body of work to show anyone who might be hiring me (and please do, anyone!), I'd prefer to use the prestige of Bitmob as opposed to a blog that honestly won't give me any credit.

So, if this thing is now a futile exercise, why write here anymore? Well, there's something to be said for writing like no one is watching. It doesn't have to go through editorial evaluation, there isn't any pressure about whether or not it'll be good enough to get the hits that'll give me any sort of recognition, I don't have to worry about word counts, and I don't have to pour over a post several times to see if it's up to snuff with I believe should be on Bitmob. I just write for the sake of writing on here.

What I'm trying to say is that I'm writing for fun on here, which is something that I may or may not have lost while worrying about whether or not I'll finish something by a self-imposed deadline. If you want to read what I have to say about a game or anything game-related for that matter, just hop over to my user profile on Bitmob. Hell, jump on any of the user profiles. There are a lot of great aspiring writers there who don't get the credit they deserve.

Don't expect updates on this thing to be too frequent, since I'll only write here when I don't have anything else to do. But I encourage you to keep an eye on it! After all, for fun or not, it's always nice to have feedback. For now, this will be the waste basket, used to just let the flow of thought flow. It's recreational, and that's it. Or maybe someone will look at this someday and think twice about giving me a job writing about games. Could go either way at this point.