Reinventing Myself

Reinventing Myself

Well, here it is. I have been meaning to write this blog post for some time so I can tell you about an evolution I’m going through.

I have worked over the past 5 years as a writer, giving my own analysis of topics which weren’t being covered by the mainstream media at the time. My content has always been oriented toward freedom, covering issues such as GMO’s, vaccines, economic and political philosophy, and the culture war.

I have gone through phases where I have been very interested in particular topics, said most of what I wanted to say about them, and moved on to others. It was a great way to get my thoughts out there and also feel like I was making a difference in the world, which I think I did in my own small way.

However, I have felt for some time that I need to change up what I do. I’m proud of the work I’ve done so far, but my heart just isn’t in it like it used to be. I feel like I’ve made an impact with the kind of journalism style I’ve had over the past few years, but the media landscape is so over saturated with opinion now that I just feel the need to step back a bit and really analyze my own life, beliefs, and knowledge base before heading back into the world of politics and current events.

So, I have been ruminating on this for some time, writing about it, and talking with friends, and I think that the best thing for me, my evolution as a writing, and the state of the country is to break the mold and start telling my own story. I’ve spent the last 5 years mostly covering events with some interjection of my own perspective, but now I really feel that what people need to hear the most is the story of the individual who has real thoughts, feelings, and experiences, rather than the same old hashed out bombardment of talking points and ideology.

This, I think, is what people really want. We all on some level understand the fakeness of the media. Social media, mainstream media, and even alternative media can barely even scratch the surface of what there is to know, and everything we see and hear is driven by a competition for views which directs discourse in the most polarizing possible way, changing our perceptions of the world in the process to see everything in terms of what the media is feeding us. The more we watch, the less we see of what else exists. It’s a big mess.

Therefore, I plan to use my experience as a writer to tell the true story of the individual, contending with the polarizing culture in which we live and the overwhelming complexity of the world, with and honest take and without fear of thinking as an individual, and some more strait-laced coverage of current events on the side.

I plan on structuring it in essentially the same way as I have in the past. On my Minds Blog, I will be posting the bulk of my own ruminations, experiences, and thoughts to clear my head and sort through things on my own, while my website will be saved for the more well produced, quality articles where I take a lot of what I have been thinking about and turn it into something palatable. I just need a place where I can get my thoughts down without the pressure of molding the piece of work into something that will be popular with a particular audience. That mindset really turns writing into a science of popularity rather than an art of cutting-edge thinking (at least in terms of the individual) and that is very draining.

So, I am just letting everybody know that my stream of content is about to change. It will get a lot more interesting, I promise, but it is going to lack that ‘media feel’ a bit. This is a big decision point for me because I know that I will lose some of my audience which isn’t interested in this type of ruminative writing, but it is a necessary step in my development as a human being, as well as a writer. I promise that this is not the end; dare I say that this is the end of the beginning.