Intro
On October 31, it’ll be a year since I started this blog. I had big plans: grow this platform along with my Instagram, consistently document my writing journey, share short stories, advice, the lot of it.
And here I am. The last time I updated on here was ten months ago with a shoddy post about goals or something equally as lofty. Then, this site started collecting digital dust.
I was amazed whenever I received an email that someone, somewhere, for some reason, decided to like a post. For a minute, I would go, “why?” and ignore the notification. So, in the past ten months the only time I thought about this site is for a collective three seconds.
At least I’m consistent.
Why I left
It wasn’t intentional.
I got busy with life and this fell to the bottom of the priority poll, and I forgot about it.
It would be so much cooler if there was some epic tale about how I was fighting a clone of myself, or an evil robot locked me out of this account, or that I needed to shed all aspects of my former identity because I needed to go into the witness protection program.
Nope, I’m just a teenager. Sorry folks.
Where I’ve been:
- School
- Growing my Instagram platform
- Writing (I’ve written another book in the time I’ve been away! It’s the Romcom I vaguely alluded to in the past)
- Wasting away my youth watching YouTube
- Whinging about the YA book I read
- Letting my cat in and out of my room
Why I’ve Returned
I’ve found my Instagram niche in the teen writing community. Sometimes I give advice on how to write X, Y, and Z, or I share very short snippets of my writing. Instagram has a ten slide limit for a single post, and that means I need to cram all the information I have into tiny font.
I’m sick of it.
I want people to be able to read what I create without straining their eyes. I want to go more in-depth with my opinions and advice. I want to share my short stories.
However, I realize that the demographic that reads and utilizes WordPress as a blogging platform aren’t my original target demographic, and that’s okay. Maybe it’s time I diversity who gets exposed to my work because, well, if it’s quality, it shouldn’t just appeal to teenagers.
Expectations, goals, and where to go from here.
I will continually work to make this website as visually appealing and substantial as I can.
I will post some of my beefier Instagram posts as blog posts so that those of you who aren’t here from the social media platform can get up to date on what I’ve been doing.
I will, of course, continue to post to Instagram — some content is better suited for that platform anyhow — but I will work to create original posts for this website. I will share original fiction that isn’t suited to Instagram’s platform. I will do whatever I feel like.
This blog won’t blow up. Hell, I don’t expect anyone to read this post (if you are, here, have a cookie and not the data tracking kind), but I want this to be here for me. It has been so nice to look back on my old posts and see where I was about a year ago in my writing; to laugh at myself and to nod in approval the things that Past Jay has accomplished. In many ways, this website feels more substantial than an Instagram account. If I ever turn this into an Official Author Website, then I hope my readers will be able to look back at where I came from and say “I’m glad he doesn’t write like that anymore, seesh.”
Conclusion
I’m not going to promise that I will be consistent in my posting, but I am going to promise to try.
I’m excited to continue this journey with you.
Thank you for reading and I hope that you find a bucket full of marshmellows later,
~Jay Montague
J. V. Montague 