Category: Website

New Site, New Setup

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Laurel & Hardy in BUSY BODIES (1933) offering some insight into my website building processJust a quick note to mark the new website going live.

It’s simpler by design. A fresh, clean place to keep things updated and easy to find. If you’re here, you probably know what I do, but this site pulls it all together: comics, screenplays, books, and whatever comes next.

The blog section (this bit) is now a work jotter. That means quick updates, behind-the-scenes notes, and thoughts in progress. Some will be polished, most won’t. Think of it like the inside cover of a well-used notebook. Things I’m working on, trying out, or need to park somewhere I can see them.

If you’re looking for something more structured or story-driven, head over to the newsletter instead. This space is more hands-on, scribbles in the margins, while the real work gets done.

More soon.

Flashback

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Remember Blogger?

I’ve been digging through my archive and the oldest blog post I could find was from March 2002.

Twenty two years. Oh boy.

Also found my old MP3 blog, but you’re all far too young to remember those.

“Created to demonstrate the futility of individual effort.”

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Blogroll: noun ‘a list on a blog page, usually running down one side, that has links to other blogs, websites, or online discussion groups’

The nice thing about controlling my own space online again is the ability to do what I like. No one blogs anymore, but it doesn’t mean I can’t have a goddamn blogroll.

Don’t worry, it’ll grow.

Purpose

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I’m still wrestling with what this blog is for.

Once the rest of the website is finished I’ll be relaunching Midnight Quatermass. I’m pretty active on Instagram and occasionally post to Facebook. And gods help me, I’m even thinking about reviving my old tumble-log purely for images I find online that are currently filling up my hard-drive.

Back in the day I wrote a few personal blogs along with an MP3 blog (remember them?), was active on all the social media platforms and also had my writing going up on various websites and magazines… That time has passed and maybe if Google Reader still existed it’d be easier to find a use for this particular space now. The loss of GReader and Twitter-as-it-was were real body-blows for me. I miss other sites, but these two services changed the way I work so drastically for the better that I just took it for granted they were gonna stick around.

Now the truth is that I don’t read any blogs on a regular basis anymore – I need a nudge from elsewhere to find or remember them.

It’s a mess. We really did fuck this stuff up.

So what I don’t want to do is simply replicate the posts I write elsewhere here. But finding an audience for this slice of the website feels like an uphill struggle. I may have got it right initially by calling it a notebook and should continue to use it primarily as just that – notes to myself.

Maybe the better stuff I post here will grow into something worth rewriting for the newsletter which has already has an audience… I probably need to have a look around and see what folk are using their blogs for these days.

Usually I just allow stuff to fall into place, but this feels like something I need to kick around a little more.

Bear with me.

Merch Table

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Still working on the rest of the website and put up the first story in my A Girl and A Gun series.

Kinda want this on a T-shirt now…

You can read the short story here.