Morning Blog January 24, 2024

My first thought this morning is that because of how this blog is laid out, maybe I need to do my paintings horizitally or square. I think I'll do that going forward. I'm up around 4 a.m. today as usual. I always fall back to sleep around 8 or 9, but my body just insists on waking up around this time to start with.  Fun times.

I don't have anything super deep to add today. Today is Friday. I have several work documents to draft today then I'm done for the weekend. I got paid last night, so thats always a good feeling. This weekend I can watch the Taylor Swift football game. I've been a Football fan for years, but I'm also a major Swiftie as I said in a previous blog. So any reason to see Taylor makes me happy.

Not having to work this weekend, means more time for more art and more blogs. Maybe I blog too much. All the recommendations say to post at least one blog post a week. I do two or three a day. Usually a couple shorter ones and then one longer one. All the recs say to keep them at 1000 words or more for optimal SEO. I'll do that if the topic warrants it. But for random thoughts and musings, usually 300-500 words is plenty. I don't want to bore anyone.

I set up a payment tier on here last night. I finally got it working right today. Its voluntary, if you sub for free you can still see my posts. But if you want to help support my work, you can use the paid tier and I'll be forever grateful. Maybe down the road I'll divide up content into paid and unpaid.

I know when reading major news articles I can't stand paywalls. But I think big news outlets with billions of dollars should be on an ads based revenue model and not subscriptions. For smaller journalists and bloggers I'm fine with paid subscriptions. I'm more of the artist/blogger type and not really a journalist though I may do some posts on current event type things, but they are mostly just my thoughts and opinions.

One thing that has excited me since starting this is seeing several other folks tell me they are looking to start their own blog as well. I love seeing the creative internet return. With Oligarchs taking over all communication and social media, being in control of your own content and following has never been more important.

If you want to know my thoughts on the Substack platform you can read it HERE. Not knocking anyone who uses it at all. We all do what we think is best. Just saying, some things to consider before going that route. I love using Ghost, but I know that isn't right for everyone. In the end, we are all just trying to survive and hopefully thrive. So, lets all support each other. That concludes my morning thoughts. I haven't decided what longer blog I'll post later. I'm sure I'll come up with something crazy when I'm more awake. Peace out for now.