Hi everyone!
I have arrived. Yes. I will be updating this blog much more frequently from now on. I will post about my rant musings, thoughts, behind the scenes and the struggles as I try to make videos, learn about making videos, grow my channel etc. Sometimes I’ll have more polished posts, about my pens, arts, unboxing, inks… Whatever. But I anticipate more of my posts to be very casual and unpolished. It takes time and effort and energy to make beautiful, polished posts, and energy in particular is rather lacking. And instead of leaving the blog empty as it has been sitting for the past year, I decided to do away with all pretenses of even wanting to make this a pretty, perfect site. No. I shall return to my long winded, rumbly roots and take to blogging like I once did in my youth. You can expect to read my thoughts, raw and unfiltered, and share in my joy and struggles…
I’ve always liked to write, and in the past, I’ve kept a dozen blogs. Well, some of them are still around, others like the moblog has died – the service closed down as users moved elsewhere, and only a shell remains on the Wayback Machine. When I discovered fountain pens, I started writing in my diary, in physical, offline journals. And eventually that took up all my spare time and I stopped blogging altogether. But there’s something that I really like about blogging that writing could not give me. Or even writing to pen pals – a hobby I took up near the start of the pandemic, and unfortunately has barely been keeping up with since. It’s different. I certainly enjoy my pens and ink and paper… Which is why I decided to dedicate my YouTube channel, and this blog, and an instagram account, so the pursuit of such physical things. But blogging is enjoyable on it’s own. I like putting my thoughts out there, shouting it out to the void, and perhaps gaining an audience somewhere along the way. And interacting with said audience through comments. Plus. I don’t need to clear around the truckload of stuff on my desk, dig out my diaries, and refill my pens. I just need my iPad. Or my phone. Or laptop. It’s mostly my iPad these days. And I can write anywhere where there is internet. Like now. At work. Or other times, at home, on my bed, away from my disaster of a desk. And I get to share my thoughts with the world. Whoever who cares to listen anyway.
So there it is. I’ve come one full circle to come back to my home territory of blogging. I don’t know how many people will be reading this… And frankly, I don’t care anyway. Sure I’d love to have tons of views, as I’d love to have tons of subscribers. But as with all things, you just gotta start doing and keep at it. And that’s what I’m doing.
Yes. My YouTube channel. There it is. Please subscribe, it’ll really help a lot! https://www.youtube.com/c/TheMessyDeskxyz That’s the link. ANd the reason why I’m posting it seperately is because, I finally have 100 subscribers. And that allows me to get my own personalised link. Awesome right? No more string of unknown letters and numbers… I have a custom link! Hurrah!
I thought that I’d also be able to do community posts once I reach a 100 subs, but nope, I was sorely mistaken. I need 500 subscribers for that… Sigh. That’s another long and slow fight, and I guess that’s my next goal. Keep making videos, try to improve on my video content and quality. Speak more fluently and be more articulate. Clear my desk so I have a bit more filming space, and stuff won’t avalanche down while filming. All that stuff.
I hope to be able to get somewhere someday. (Make this my job perhaps?) dAnd I’d love it if you would join my on my journey.