My natural tendency is to tweak my writing (and everything else) to within an inch of its life to squeeze out the maximum potential. However, since I am still a novice writer, my writing is frankly sub-par (at least by my own standards). I started this blog because I wanted to have the freedom to make some mistakes in order to actually write things. However, because the blog format is, shall we say, not perfectly suited to how I want to express myself, I often feel constrained to write poorly.
As you may have noticed, I took a six-month hiatus to focus on my personal life. I intended the LFS series to get me back into writing again, but the *ahem* intense tedium of describing in detail the building of a Linux system, while valuable to me, is probably minimally interesting to anybody who isn’t me.
In fact, it’s even pretty boring to me. This is a problem, because this is one of the reasons I stopped writing about learning Python — I got bored with telling my own story because I kept obsessing over how to talk about technical details I’d already learned to the point where I simply wasn’t learning anymore.
I’ve been trying to figure out how to assuage both my creative and my technical halves. I don’t have definitive answers yet, but I do know that a few things will be different:
- I am no longer going to try to make long and meaningful posts — just meaningful ones.
- I am no longer going to worry about how often I post, but I am probably going to post more often.
- I am going to diversify my writing into my other interests so I always have something to write about (curse you, writer’s block!).
I predict that BG will undergo many changes, and probably more than a few things will break in the process. But then, that’s how I learn — by fixing the things I just broke. 
