Not Doing Much

Technically, the do nothing man no longer exists. Yeah, it's sad. Believe me, I know. Besides the fact that I had no income and very little cash (I was eating out of my savings account), I thoroughly enjoyed doing nothing. My stint of unemployment lasted only six months. October, November, and December of 2010. January, February, and March of 2011.

At the end of March I was of offered a job with a software company on their development and quality assurance team. For security and privacy reasons, I'm not going to talk too much about the company, its products, or what I do. But I will say it's awesome and that I'm required to take an hour break for lunch.

This free time in the middle of the day has led me back to this lonesome blog. The Chronicles of F. S. was a collaborative idea between myself and a close friend. This guy, whom I met in a creative writing class (poetry, go figure) at The Ohio State University, set everything up for me: the name, the blog, the twitter account, everything. All he told me was: "There you go. Tell your stories."

Storytelling has always been a passion of mine, but I'm not always on the side of delivery. In fact, I look to be on the receiving end of storytelling most of the time; I revel in excellent storytelling. And I love to listen to excellent storytellers. Taking a slight side-step, I also enjoy reading reviews on video games and technology, especially when the reviewers are storytellers themselves.

So I tried my hand at some of that over at Destructoid. I promise not to re-post anything...though I may occasionally shoot a link over to that blog. What's overwhelming was the amount of attention I paid to other peoples’ blog posts while writing mine. After my posts were up, was still paying more attention to other posts; I wanted to see who commented and when. I read the posts that went up before and after mine. Additionally, I really focused on related posts that were getting more views and comments than my post. In doing all this, I realized my most adamant curiosity: How do I write a blog post that spurs attention and action from my audience? I want to get people talking, commenting, liking, disliking, or tweeting. How do I ignite that interaction? That's the killer question. Finding the answer is now my goal.