I’ve had two blogs before this one, both during the ‘days of my youth’, as in, I was in High School. I’d link them, but a honestly don’t remember what the URLs were…
The first was YP online, YP meaning my internet namesake, yanipheonu. Incidentally, Yani isn’t my real name, and I am not a ‘Pheonu’, although sometimes wish I were (and I further confuse people).
The second was named Just Observing and in a way this is the spiritual successor of that site.
There were two problems that both these blogs eventually succumbed to. The first was they often would act as more of a news blog, spiting out items of game news that I found interesting. This ultimately made for a boring blog, as it was 95% me saying “HAY LOOK THIS ARE COOL!!!1!”. I eventually face-palmed at the sight of the site and gave up. I’m afraid I haven’t exactly ‘killed my inner critic’ as it were.
The second problem was I am quite a distracted person. I often wonder to myself if I have ADD, as I have a hard time concentrating on anything without putting a movie on my iPod, or checking the latest news online (which I do quite a lot of). As such, when my younger self was distracted with other things, my blog would become neglected and ultimatly scrapped. Now that I am older, I like to think that I am a bit more focused than I was (keep telling yourself that…).
