Project: The blog
The purpose of this blog is to share with friends a more intimate story of the work in progress. I will be speaking in draft. The story will be told in rough strokes, from my point of view, as the work happens. Sometimes it will be told in words, sometimes in pictures, and probably with spelling errors.
The difference between this blog and the content that will appear on social media is that this blog will share more questions, half-baked ideas, proposals I will not hold myself accountable to, and mistakes. Some of these entries will be the first draft of a social media post, but most will remain private for whoever chooses to read this blog.
This past year I started to develop a practice of sharing this type of process narrative on my personal Instagram page by posting about a woodworking project. I’m not sure how many followers I have, and I don’t care. Whoever follows me, is my friend, so it seemed like a good low stakes way to develop a way to share about process. Similarly, I don’t really care what people think about my woodworking, because it’s a hobby. I do it only for myself and I’m not precious about it. For better or worse, I’m deeply precious about my theater practice (and insecure about my writing) so developing a process sharing practice thru instagramming about woodworking seemed like a great way to get going.
I spent the next month posting updates every day about what I did. The descriptions were longer than advised by influencers. I used technical wood working jargon without concern for who would understand it. I posted about stupid mistakes and screw ups. Sometimes I would post boring photos that looked exactly the same. A before photo of a stack of boards and and after photo of the boards sawed in half. To most people they looked exactly the same. The next day I would post an almost identical photo, because that day I sawed more boards.
I felt like was trolling Instagram by doing it, but it felt good.
And yup, people read them and really liked. So this is going to be a little like that. But just for you.