Bloggy bloggy.

Bitemarks will continue monday, I promise. In the meantime, I wanna talk so sit down, have a cuppa and listen up.

I've become lost in the sea of internet blogging. I've come to terms with reality in many aspects. I realise the chance of new readers coming my way are as close to zero as they're gonna get, closely followed by my dwindling active readership. I'm also acutely aware that though I'd quite like to be rich (wouldn't we all?) or renowned or even just respected by my readers and fellow writers the simple truth is, it ain't gonna happen. Sun-Tzu knows why. Clever bastard. Perhaps, as he would say, it's simply that I don't want to win. I just don't want it enough. Perhaps, just like JD Salinger, I'm content simply to write for my own amusement and entertainment first and foremost. Perhaps I'm just too miserable and/or disillusioned half the time to cast even the simplest of linguistical spells. Perhaps I get too caught up in reading either to research ideas I don't even know I'm having yet, or to expand my knowledge overall. Or perhaps, like Douglas Adams, I'm just lazy.
This might sound like some farewell. It isn't. If anything, it's the opposite. It's a declaration that whether people are here reading or not, I intend to continue, even if at times it doesn't look like it. I'm even going to make sure I get back into writing some actual blogs and not just posting poems and story snippets. Because I just like writing. To please me.
I used to think I had a pretty unique mindset. Turns out I was wrong. Turns out there's a lot of people out there who think like me, feel like me. Maybe that's something I'll tell you about some day. Maybe it isn't. But even those thoughts and ideas and feelings and mannerisms are no longer truly my own, they still are mine. One thing I know for sure. In the wake of Iamamiwhoami, I realise that I don't really care for total anonymity. At least, not as a writer. So I point anyone looking over to
http://www.formspring.me/Charonicus
where you can ask me anything that's on your mind. Be it about me, my thoughts, or just seeking an answer to any question at all. I am putting myself and my knowledge at your disposal.

The other thing I wanted to talk about was metadata. I read an article recently in Wired magazine by Russell M Davies. He points out that you, the reader, are devoid of information about the metadata behind the pieces we writers produce. Now, I, as a blogger, can and often do include such metadata. (Like how sometimes I'll bracket in an afterthought or an aside). But even then not all of it. Would it matter if you knew or not that as I write this article I'm listening to Sun and Steel by Iron Maiden. Or that I just finished work, the boredom of which was the factor that drove me to think up this very blog entry? Or that I'm itching to get finished and watch a movie before bed? His point was that you miss a lot of the creative process. You don't know if I stopped halfway through this blog to get a sandwich. Or if the phone rang and I was interrupted enough that I forgot a section that I wanted to include, thus denying you that section. I found this interesting in part because it relates to something coming up in bitemarks. I don't want to spoil it. But let's just say this. There's a part coming up that I've been nervous about. Nervous because it may seem to be related to something that happened on my blog during the early days of this Bitemarks project. I just want you to know, it isn't related. It was always the plan. The fact that it's there is co-incidence. And when it happens, I'll point it out, so you know what I'm on about.

I think that's everything. See you soon.