About Perpetualized
This is Perpetualized.
This post sums up my website habit: This is my life…
I compare my website habit to my reading habit, but it’s really more like my food habit. I can’t stand it when my potatoes touch my green beans in the same way that I can’t stand to intermingle topics on my websites and blogs.
The details (a.k.a. the stuff about pages are made of)
I build websites because I love them. I had my brother create my first site for me, but it didn’t do all the things I wanted it to do and it had a few features I wasn’t too fond of (frames) so I learned HTML and I edited it to suit me. Then I built another site. And another. One day I looked up and I had about six or seven websites (I’m not sure of the number now) and I thought What have I got myself into here? The answer to that question was important because I was having loads of fun, but I wasn’t making any progress on my career of choice at the time (writing fiction).
Over the last eight years I’ve gone back and forth between my two loves–websites and fiction–but a few days ago (August 2, 2008 to be exact) I decided I was no longer going to call myself a fiction writer. It was a decision a long time coming and it was surprisingly easy to make.
Now, before I go all crazy and say I’ll never write another novel, I should say that of course I’ll write again. :-) I love writing. But I can no longer lie about it. Writing novels is not my number one, two, or three priority anymore. It hasn’t been in years.
These days, I’m still building websites like crazy, and I have significantly more than six or seven. I’m not making much money from them, and although I’d like to change that, it’s not the driving force behind my obsession with websites. I believe it’s the writing, the sharing of knowledge and the hope that someday, someone will be excited or entertained by something I’ve written on one of my sites. I love my sites. Even the ones that suck.
So these days I consider myself a freelance author, writing about topics I find interesting and topics I want to learn more about. I build websites to give me a place to put that writing, and these days, I’m even making a few dollars from my website writing.
Over the next few months and years, I’d like to expand that income to replace my current career, but as I’ve said elsewhere on this site, I don’t expect miracles nor overnight successes.
You can find me on Google Talk… I’m Perpetualized.
Feel free to toss off a message to me. I’m happy to talk with you, about anything I talk about on my blogs or websites, as long as I have time to do the other stuff I like to do. :-)
I’m no longer on Plurk or Twitter because I found them both to be a huge waste of time. I never posted anyway, so you’re not missing anything by not having me there. ;-)