Friday, November 23, 2018

It's Been a While

Ages ago I made the decision to transition from Blogspot/Blogger to Wordpress. I don't regret this decision; however, I have missed this platform and plan to come back to it in some way. I started this version of the blog because I love coffee and I wanted to write all about it. I broke away from this topic for awhile after becoming disenchanted with it and the art of writing as a whole. I made the promise at the onset of this project that I would cover every possible aspect of coffee in extensive detail so people could look back to this blog as a resource on the matter. Though I have written many posts on this subject, I have fallen short in terms of my ultimate goal.

I plan to start at the beginning, cover places that I covered before, and see about crossing all the places I was supposed to cover but didn't off my list. I really like the content I've written here and I feel like letting this blog fester and rot would be a disservice to myself and the time I put into it. I plan on looking over the old posts and sprucing up the ones that need help and deleting the ones I should've never written in the first place. I am all about having a body of work that speaks for itself. I realized I needed to do more to enhance what was here while also tying it in to what's over on the Wordpress version.

I am by no means a coffee expert and that''s okay. I don't feel like someone needs to be an expert in something to be able to talk or write about it. They just have to make it a point to ensure that they aren't misinforming their potential audience. Entertaining people is one thing. Distributing content that's filled with bogus nonsense under the guise of entertainment is negligence. A large part of the coffee drinking public is unaware of all the intricacies that are present in the coffee expert community. All they know is that coffee tastes great and they enjoy having it on a regular basis.

In the time that I took off from covering coffee, I'm sure that the places I contacted way back when have changed or closed down. These are things that I will find out along the way. My content drifts from talking about firsthand experiences with companies to speculating on companies and trying to get a sense of what they're all about as if I'm passing through. I do this because I look at my content as though it's a conversation and anyone who comes to read it is getting involved and presenting their two cents. Too many content creators get on a soap box and feel as though their viewpoint is the only one that matters. I'm not one of those people.

Discipline is something I've struggled with my entire writing career. Though I have written many pieces, when you take what I've written and consider how long I've been writing, my output is abysmal. I need to change that or stop calling myself a writer. Any person who says that they do something while also rarely doing that thing is undeserving of that title. I have to write more and cover more topics to turn this blog from a dusty relic to a happening place for all people and not just those who have spent countless hours studying their craft.

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