Soft launch

Welcome to The Long Walk, especially to those of you who may have followed my previous blog.

I've had some time to think since I ended my last blog on December 31st. If you followed my last blog, you may know that I wasn't entirely happy with how it turned out. I wrote a lot of content for which I have no fondness, in retrospect. Much of that was due to meeting the daily deadline I set for myself. Having put a full year of blogging under my belt (give or take a few days), I don't think I need to do the daily updates. That was valuable for learning the discipline to write on a regular basis, but now, I need to try something else.

With this blog, I plan to update on a weekly basis. On the advice of a friend, I will update on the same day every week, but I haven't yet decided which day. I'm leaning toward either Friday or Sunday. I did learn that updating at a regular time each week will help to build regular followers, as it will give them something to anticipate. Also, having only a weekly deadline gives me the opportunity to have things prepared that I can write about. 

In terms of content, I want to write about things that are meaningful to me. My walk with The Lord, things I enjoy, movies or TV shows I want to review, current events, or interesting and/or unusual bits of information that have caught my attention. In an effort to steer away from a problem that plagued the last blog, I do not want to write about work, and to do so as little as possible, if not avoiding doing it at all. Work became too easy a crutch, an out to avoid having anything prepared to write. I don't want to do that anymore. It's just lazy writing, and I'm sure, less enjoyable to read than write.

In terms of the title, The Long Walk, I wanted to give the blog a title that reflected my desire to have a blog that would be long-running, something that I would want to keep up for the long haul, unlike the last blog, of which I could barely muster the energy to finish.

Now that you readers have some idea what to anticipate, I'll be back in a week with something I hope you enjoy and will make you want to come back every week.