My Social Media-less Life

Awkwardly enough, until about two minutes ago, I had no intention of doing a blog today. Bloganuary is officially over, after all. There’s no need for me to continue.

Except there is, because I like writing and sharing my thoughts and my life with people.

Actually I’m coming to the realization that’s why it’s so hard for me to write fiction if it’s not loosely based around some kind of fact or story that I can completely relate to. Or if it’s completely made up and zero people care either way.

The current iteration of fiction I’m writing was at one point based on what we’ll call an “alternate reality” version of myself. That’s no longer the case, since I’ve renamed the main character and she’s taking on a personality of her own without my having to change much of the dialogue or way she reacts to things.

Which is also super weird, by the way.

Since I started Bloganuary, I would write a blog and then write for a bit in this “alternate reality” story… so… now the blog has a purpose more than just “a life update of what it’s like without social media.”

I really should change the tagline since not having social media has been pretty easy since we passed the holidays. Especially since I have ways to get the news that’s no longer specifically Facebook/Instagram/Twitter, et al.

Other than that, I guess I’ll keep blogging if it keeps me in the habit of doing some kind of writing for my story.