Why doesn’t tumblr have inline polls? Anyway my question to anyone who cares is about what I should do with this blog. For full details on what’s behind this question, check under the cut 🙂

Should I?

a) Create a new sideblog dedicated to writing
b) you guys don’t mind if I blog about writing a lot more on here

The pro of a new sideblog is it can be a proper writeblr and I might find new writing friends. The con is another blog to manage and I’m a bit pants at keeping multiple things going.

The pro of keeping it here is that then everything is just in one place. The con is not being able to network as a writeblr and also it might annoy you guys. Although I do promise that I would tag for blocking purposes.

What do you guys think?

I’ve been thinking – dangerous I know 🙂

When I first joined tumblr back in May 2016 I didn’t reblog gifsets very much as I don’t think I understood how tumblr worked that well. I thought if I saw it on my dash a lot that reblogging was pointless/potentially annoying, as it would just repeat again. I also apologised when I started reblogging more than 3 things a day as I was concerned about spamming /facepalm

These days I like reblogging gifsets because a) shiny, b) it showcases stuff I love and I like showing what I love. I’ve made posts bemoaning lack of gifsets for certain things because dammit I want that content on my dash hehe.

BUT (and here’s where the thinking comes in)

Reblogging all those gifsets ties me in pretty firmly with fandom. Now I consider myself embedded in the rumbelle fandom and I never want to leave. I don’t really know where the fandom is for anything else very much (I equate knowing fandom with knowing people in the fandom) but I do as I said reblog a lot of shiny gifsets.

There is one person I follow, and I’ve completely forgotten how come I came to follow them oops, but they are a writeblr. Now I had to look this up as I didn’t really understand that tumblr can be different things (apparently fitblr’s exist too! learn something new everyday heh) but they are writing dedicated blogs.

Now I’ve been in a writing slump/pit of despair for getting on for two years. My lack of updates and poor neglected WIP’s testify to that. Given my shame I’ve mostly been quiet on the writing front. Sort of a “if I don’t talk about it, I won’t draw attention to it” kinda deal. Sometimes I’ll say stuff but not often (the amount of written and deleted posts is staggering).

So my thought is maybe, just maybe, I’ll get my enthusiasm back if I pretend to be enthusiastic. Sort of a ‘fake it until you make it’ kinda deal. If I re-immerse myself in the writing world again, I’ll start to pick it up, rather than just ignoring it and letting time slip through my fingers like water.

Yeah so that’s what is going through my mind.