halfway through first draft

I'm downshifting the content on this blog, for now. I am halfway through the first draft of my new book, and I'm probably spending too much time building an audience on X. 'Building an audience' means chatting up probable bots and responding to threads on various topics with absolutely no coherent strategy.

From an SEO perspective, a regularly updated blog is a good trust-building exercise that lets Google know that your site isn't abandonware. For me, it was an intermediate step.

I first spent a few weeks typing every morning, a collection of essays that will likely never see the light of day. I moved to this blog just to get used to thinking in public, although the audience was only slightly more than one. The next step is social media and other sites that deliver content directly to the points that readers congregate. Although I'll spend more time there, keeping a repository like this blog is useful. It is similar to how comedians work through their sets in smaller clubs to prepare for the large shows.

I may change this format if I create a regular newsletter, but that's a ways off.