Grand re-opening…
After a lot of thought and consideration, I have decided to start writing here again. Previously, as I mentioned in my last — and what I thought would be my final post back in October — I’ve been writing for Ars Technica’s Nobel Intent science journal.
I have decided that I want to write for myself again. Not because Ars is a bad place to write and hang out — it’s not, by any means — but because I miss creating something that’s truly mine. As you probably know, I use WordPress to do my publishing here and on my personal blog, and one of the plugins I use is wp-cron in conjunction with another plugin to send me a backup of my database every night. I’ve missed seeing it grow little-by-little. I mentioned on my personal blog back in September that I was reluctant to give up writing for myself. Well, the pull back towards doing my own thing has proved stronger than my desire to be paid for my writing and have a huge number of readers. That’s the entrepreneur coming out in me, I guess.
I don’t regret my time writing for Ars at all. I learned a lot while I was there about doing a thorough job writing and researching. Having a much larger readership forces you to alter the way you write and think about things. Jonathan and Jay are great guys — I don’t regret sharing space with them at all. Truthfully, I wish I had a partner here at polyscience to write alongside me regularly as an equal “owner” if you will.
Anyway, starting today I’ll be back writing for myself, here on polyscience.org. Which I’m very excited about. I don’t intend to give it up again anytime soon.
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[...] I’ve written up a “grand-reopening” post on polyscience.org. I’ve decided to go back to writing for myself, even if it doesn’t have a huge number of readers like Nobel Intent did. Writing for someone else isn’t the same as writing for yourself, particularly when you enjoy building and working toward something, even if you’re not sure what that something is. [...]
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