The Short Version
Oct. 20th, 2014 12:20 pmHello hello!
It's been a while since I had a long-format place to write stuff. Even when I was on LiveJournal I eventually made about one post a /year/. This is an experiment (along with other folks) to try and rebuild some sense of community around words and conversations, in larger chunks and slightly less competition for attention than Twitter.
On that note, I had some thoughts about how to kickstart things a little.
1) Comment on each other's entries. Seriously! At least until we have a certain amount of momentum for people posting, it's kinda important to not feel like we're shouting into a void. Knowing people are reading things you're writing is important to the person writing. Even if it's just a 'hello' or 'I agree!', feedback is good!
2) Cross-post for now, to where other people are still active. Twitter and/or LiveJournal come to mind. This doesn't have to be done for every post, or people will start filtering it out. But it's a good way to get people into the conversation /here/ rather than the exercise in frustration that having a conversation on Twitter tends to be.
3) Write things! Doesn't have to be all the time. I don't know what new thoughts I'll have--but then I didn't think I'd have a first post until I put these thoughts in a comment, and![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
indicoyote said it should be a post. So. I /do/ have other personal stuff to write about, and stories to share that I forget I haven't shared yet. :-}
That's it for now.
(PS: Er. Apologies to anyone who might say 'hey, I tried to get people on DW years ago and nobody came over!'. I'm making an effort now, and hope that helps.)
It's been a while since I had a long-format place to write stuff. Even when I was on LiveJournal I eventually made about one post a /year/. This is an experiment (along with other folks) to try and rebuild some sense of community around words and conversations, in larger chunks and slightly less competition for attention than Twitter.
On that note, I had some thoughts about how to kickstart things a little.
1) Comment on each other's entries. Seriously! At least until we have a certain amount of momentum for people posting, it's kinda important to not feel like we're shouting into a void. Knowing people are reading things you're writing is important to the person writing. Even if it's just a 'hello' or 'I agree!', feedback is good!
2) Cross-post for now, to where other people are still active. Twitter and/or LiveJournal come to mind. This doesn't have to be done for every post, or people will start filtering it out. But it's a good way to get people into the conversation /here/ rather than the exercise in frustration that having a conversation on Twitter tends to be.
3) Write things! Doesn't have to be all the time. I don't know what new thoughts I'll have--but then I didn't think I'd have a first post until I put these thoughts in a comment, and
indicoyote said it should be a post. So. I /do/ have other personal stuff to write about, and stories to share that I forget I haven't shared yet. :-} That's it for now.
(PS: Er. Apologies to anyone who might say 'hey, I tried to get people on DW years ago and nobody came over!'. I'm making an effort now, and hope that helps.)
