It’s been a minute since I’ve written anything on this Blog.

To say that WordPress has changed since I started a Blog at all is a bit of an understatement. The Block format definitely did not exist back in 2012. It was a straightforward writing template where you could see each font and paragraph modification button. They call it Classic Mode now, but what it really was back then was free — and accessible.

I’m not going to lie. The idea of having to write a Blog article on another word platform to copy and paste it here, with time to reformat the entire thing is something that didn’t — and doesn’t frankly appeal to me. And this is a development in particular that’s been around for a while. I’ll admit, I even thought about switching platforms over the years to make it easier for me.

What I loved about the original WordPress was that it was easy and intuitive to use. You could start a Blog, open up a post template, and just write. Just like that, you were writing. It was a great place to share my off-the-cuff thoughts, and flesh them out for everyone to see on a creative level. It was a great experimental place to just place some words down, and let them grow. I understand the Blocking format allows you, theoretically, to make a more fanciful looking Blog, but there is a learning curve there that, honestly, is not intuitive to me. It makes it awkward and strange to try to be spontaneous, and that is not even going into the nightmare of finding, editing, and adding images into the entire thing.

Imagine this situation as having tools or a space that was once idiosyncratic to you. You had everything set up the way you understood it, and it was ergonomic — made to fit my cognitive perspective or lay out. And then, one day, it just changed and getting it back is too expensive emotionally and financially to maintain. It’s something along those lines for me.

Despite how this post looks, however, this isn’t a rant about how this platform has grown away from me. It is a large reason as to why I haven’t written on here in a while of course, but it’s not the main one. When I first started Mythic Bios sixteen years ago, I wanted to get my writing out there. I wanted to say something meaningful. I wanted to share my creative process and thoughts with other people, or like-minded creators and readers. I’d just come from the end of my Graduate school days, and moved out of a partner’s place. I was trying to find my own space again, partly out of spite and defiance for what I perceived were people judging me, or thinking I gave up.

Mythic Bios itself is an older idea than this Blog. It was a series of handwritten notebooks I kept up to keep writing: to explore my writing abilities, and expand on them. It existed in my own head, and then on paper, and then on the screen. This Blog was never perfect, but it felt a lot like mine. A lot happened since I first started Mythic Bios online. I traveled a bit. Twitter used to exist. I met a lot of different personalities online. I attempted to network. I went back to exploring Toronto. I wrote for two online geeky publications. Then I was working on two original series, one of which is posted on here — Alternative Facts — but reality got so much weirder and ridiculous, I just could not keep up.

COVID-19 happened. One of my partners died. Some people I looked to were not who I thought they were. And I found someone new in my life.

I’ve been spending less time online now, and mostly living. There are challenges I’m dealing with, and others on the way. It’s hard to relate to not only the format of WordPress now, but also the place I was when I started this Blog and a lot of the other work I did adjacently to it. I’m not the same person I was when I started this Blog in 2012. And honestly, I don’t think I am supposed to be.

For any longtime readers, or new ones for that matter, you will see eventually Ads start to creep back into this Blog. Some links might not work anymore. My domain name might also change. I just can’t, in good conscience, maintain my Premium anymore for a platform I barely use these days. The person who made all of this, to create a momentum, to be heard, to find someone or a body to see my writing, isn’t there anymore.

I have not given up on my writing, of course. I just think at this stage in my life it’s something I love to do, and not necessarily something that can solely keep me alive.

I’m not giving up on this Blog. Perhaps I will have something new and real to say on it on day. Maybe I will share something that I’m proud to have done. Or I will just post up some fanfiction from time to time. But I think I am at a stage where while I want to work on creative projects, I am very interested in working on myself as a person more.

Thank you so much for following me. I have saved this Blog and my articles just in any case anything happens to it. I’m glad you have been following me so far. Until another time everyone. Take care.

sincerely,
Matthew Kirshenblatt