Hello!
It's been a while since I've seriously blogged about... anything! (To be precise, since 2013.)
I never thought I'd give it another shot outside of the occasional word jumble I'd leave on tumblr or twitter.
In ways, it feels like going back to form. Something about putting thought into a much longer post feels nice. I missed it even though I know my way of writing is difficult to follow sometimes, but, it's not like I'm writing for a college paper or some sort of prestigious publication.
It's probably okay for me to write the way I do for now because I can only get better the more I do it. (I hope)
My last jab at blogging was keeping a game log of sorts. I was inspired by a friend who, at the time, was keeping track of the games he was playing and what he thought about them. He wasn't necessarily doing a professional review of the games he was playing, just jotting down his thoughts and sharing them with his friends.
Back then, I really wanted to learn how to journal, but I felt ashamed at my poor penmanship skills (which is, unfortunately, still the case now.) I didn't really think about using a blog for anything like this. For some reason, I had been under the impression that blogging was only for professionals and that any blogging I did back then was somehow lower than actual blogging (Whatever that meant to me back then.)
Up until that point, all my blogging had been about fandoms I was in. I used my LiveJournal (and later, Tumblr) to talk about the latest chapter or episodes of the book, manga, anime, video game, etc. I was really into. I sadly don't remember much of what I wrote or talked about, a lot of these things were lost to time... and old e-mails I couldn't remember the password to.
Though in hindsight, maybe it's good some of those were lost to time. I don't think I'd be able to read the things I wrote about with a straight face now.
Going back to what my friend was blogging about, I tried to start up my own gaming log. I wrote a list of games I was playing, what my goals were for those games, and any future games I was interested in.
I ended up writing four total posts on that blog, with a fifth post being a draft that never got published (The draft was about Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. I was apparently stuck at some point in the Forsaken Fortress while replaying it.)
They were weekly posts talking about what I had done in Animal Crossing for that week, including if I visited friends and how excited I was to see their towns and rooms.
This is the kind of feeling I want back. It's the main reason I have the sudden desire to at least attempt this again.
I have ideas of what I want to write about already, but for now I'll keep things loose and sit down to write things when inspiration strikes.
I'm both excited and nervous at starting to blog again. I'm hoping to learn more and improve as I go!