{"id":3745,"date":"2023-01-03T10:12:34","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T10:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/?p=3745"},"modified":"2023-01-03T10:12:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T10:12:35","slug":"blogging-for-2023-private-and-public-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/?p=3745","title":{"rendered":"Blogging for 2023: private and public posts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

… and we are off. The first, shiny new blog post of the year is here! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hope you had a restful end to 2022 and are looking forward to what 2023 may bring. I am still on holiday, having taken some overdue leave and I am enjoying the extra rest. It’s giving me time to catch up with my thoughts, do some exercise and celebrate my partner’s birthday with a trip to the coast. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back to blogging. Literally. I am kicking off my year of blogging by writing about blogging: for the first time in a few years, I have set up a new space for me to write in. A counterpart to this one, my primary domain, which offers me a private space for articulating my thoughts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two spaces? <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It’s actually more than two spaces to write in, as I like to write a lot. I have paper based and digital journals, in which I write with blue and black ink and I like the speed of writing with a fountain pen as well as the sound it makes. A noise I had forgotten for a while. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also have plenty of digital spaces to write in, mostly work-related, from social media, others’ platforms and this site, my own space. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s useful for me to have more than one space, as it helps me write about the different things I am interested in, and with different readers in mind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most people know me online through my day job, and they may not necessarily want to read about lots of unrelated things. I have tried in the past to bring everything I do together, but over time I have found that having separate spaces works better for me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why private?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This is a topic I have written about before<\/a>, as I have always had different degrees of openness in my practice. It helps me to have a private space: it makes me feel safe to be completely honest, to write things down that I am still puzzling out, and to have a space to work through doubts or worries. It also gives me a space to revel in being me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, I find it fun to set up a new space for myself. It gives me a wonderful sense of turning over a new leaf. It’s the start of something. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I came across something I blogged about in 2018<\/a>, about how completing something fun is an important part of my practice: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As often as I can, I dedicate some time to doing something fun. For example, I enjoy making a web page and publishing it. Or making an image for something. Or reading\/writing something. It doesn\u2019t really matter what it is, it\u2019s about completing it and getting a sense of achievement from it. A quick win. A lot of what I work on is a) long term, b) invisible or c) collaborative and so in order to balance these with feeling that I have accomplished something I often do \u2018something fun\u2019 and see it completed. It reminds me of how good I am at making things happen and often helps me see bigger, more complex things through to completion with a greater sense of confidence.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Setting up a new space to write ticks all those boxes. It’s a quick win. It’s fun. It gives me a sense to have achieved something and it’s only the 3rd January… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… and we are off. The first, shiny new blog post of the year is here! I hope you had a restful end to 2022 and are looking forward to what 2023 may bring. I am still on holiday, having taken some overdue leave and I am enjoying the extra rest. It’s giving me time to catch up with my thoughts, do some exercise and celebrate my partner’s birthday with a trip to the coast.…<\/p>\n

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