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…).

So why did I return to blogging? Well first off, I often write on forums and comments on game sites anyways, I figured I should be more constructive with my internet time. I thinking it was mostly because of getting into University (U of Waterloo, and Wilfried Laurier FYI). I felt like I needed to do… something. I wanted to craft something. I had already become accustomed to making stories on my own, but a blog is something that feels more ‘real’ somehow. More dynamic, it does not grow and change with me, a blog changes as the world does ( and I further confuse people). I guess another reason would be I wanted to improve my writing.

I have a rather inconsistent writing style I’m afraid. It usually consists of me punching in one letter at a time, until I have an actual sentence down, and then I’ll get distracted by some new game news or a newly discovered episode of a favourite anime. Hense, “One key at a time” is the ultimate expression of my struggles in writing, and as most books on writing will depressingly point out, writing in whole is a struggle, but so is life I suppose. I’ll juast keep punching it in one day at a time, and hopefully reach that future in the distance.