Don't you hate whiny bloggers? I have written innumerable entries (well, not really, but it seems like I keep saying it) about the need to not whine on the web, but to write, to stretch, and to explore the art of writing. And yet, the last series of entries have been that which I hate the most: whiny, snivelling, navel gazing at its worst. I don't know what I was trying to accomplish with those posts, whether self-fulfillment or self-convincing (if that's a term), but, either way, it didn't work. I'm in a new spot, I suppose, but I have lots of personal text on the web that is kind of a verbal debris field that showed how I got here. Not very cool, I must say, to open the vault for all to see, and also not cool to break my own rules about public discourse. So, a change is coming, one that has been necessary for a long time.
Summer is the time to focus on renewal, plain and simple. So this is where I turn now, back to the writing (now that I have time), and maybe to some web development. With my transition away from teaching AP English and focusing on other more technical pursuits, I have to discontinue the AP website. God knows how much I tinkered with that thing, changed it, redesigned it, tried out new code snippets, so I'm kind of sad at stopping it. It will stay up for a bit, but there will be no new assignments, no new class novels, no new extra credit. Instead, I'll be designing a new technology web site, one that will serve as a portal for me to deliver technology information to the faculty, gather interesting tech oriented articles, and generally sound the bell for movement towards 21st century skills.
So creatively I'm moving around in new directions, and, yes, the stories are still clamoring in my head. Maybe with this move I can give them some air. So what else can I say except: shut up and write.
