What the Blog?

 If you've stumbled across this here sight, we likely know each other in some form or fashion, maybe you entered a few words into a search engine and I tricked you into clicking through to this site which likely does not answer your question in any reliable way, possibly you clicked through from another site where one of the above referenced people I know (know sometimes having a loose definition) was kind enough to link to me. That all said, I don't post very frequently, I intend to, but like many endeavors it's one where my laziness or busyness with other things impedes upon my time to the degree in which I fail to post anything witty or informative or semi-literate here for you, the reader who somehow ended up here.

I'm not famous, I've yet to finish a book (writing one, not reading, I read books all the time), the few essays and short stories I manage to get published are few and far between, and on most other topics I don't have a ton to say (though, maybe I'd have more to say if any of the three criteria for one having a blog worth reading as outlined above were the opposite of current circumstances). So what's the purpose of this here space on the internet? I'm not going to shut it down, I take enough blog hiatuses as it is and most of the time with the infrequency of actual posts, most people might know the difference any way. Plus, I know that somehow should I release my domain out into the wild it will get snatched up and end up as some sort of spam site, maybe not, but that's what I tell myself every year when I fork over the ten bucks it costs to renew www.eriksmetana.com.

But I'm not a total online loafer, I've somehow managed to start and oversee a fairly successful online literary magazine (though, that is probably more a testament to surrounding myself with amazing editors than anything else). I'd offer to use this as a personal journal, but those times when I offer up personal insights, like this post, they tend to focus on why I'm not writing something. And that's not fun for you or me. So what to do? To blog or not to blog? Or not to do something else? Do I abandon other time-sucks in the hope it frees up minutes for more constructive activities? Do I say to hell with the notion of every completing a novel that I'd be willing to show anyone else with the ability to read the English language? Do I manage my time better -- scheduling time to screw around online, time to write, time to post here more than once a month or so? What to do? Or better yet, what's the point of a writer's blog for someone who is not a successful (again, loosely defined) writer (and may never be)? I'll let you know when I figure it out (or maybe I'll just inundate you with videos of cute puppies, people seem to like that).