About The "Other Writing" Posts

I've just posted two "Other Writing" posts.  I wanted them posted today not because I want to call attention to that other writing, but because I want the links here for my own purposes.  The fact my aim is to de-emphasize the stuff in the "Other Writing" posts (at least for now).  (By the way, there are so far two "Other Writing" posts (A and B).  There may be more in the future, but I think those two posts pretty much serve the purpose of keeping all that stuff that needs my attention in one pace (this blog).

Because I have stuff that's set on "private" and other stuff that has any number of different combinations of settings that may/may not change from one day to the next, I'm not entirely sure that some of those "Other Writing" links will actually work.  The majority of them will, however, if, for some reason, someone is at all interested in them.

Since I pretty much want the "Other Writing" posts to sink to "Older Posts" as start posting more and more on this blog, I'll just write a note that refers to them in the sidebar and point out that the posts with the label, "Other Posts", have been posted on February 24, 2016; and that will allow anyone interested (for some reason) know how to find the posts that have the links.

Long story a little less long (about the stuff in those posts) is that as of today, and for one reason or another, it's stuff that isn't ready to be moved to the one of the front burners.

Other Writing Post B

Note (03/01/16):  As far as I know, this particular bunch of links have all been disabled (by me).
 
At any given time I have several blogs "in the works".  I say "in the works" because they're all either still in the "laying-a-foundation" stage, or else their foundation is well established but my posting is not as regular as one would expect in a blog.  Basically, I see them as "early-stage" blogs that I've set up with the idea of having them there for if/when I decide and/or have the time and inspiration to post more regularly.  So aware that the blogs aren't "what blogs are supposed to be", I occasionally take them all offline just because I'm uncomfortable with the undeveloped state they're in.  Then, however, I realize they aren't completely undeveloped as pages - only as functioning blogs.  That's when I put them back online and figure anyone who runs into them can either read (or not read) whatever is there.  Not that I assume anyone would even be interested in any of the blogs at this stage; but for anyone who may be curious, I've posted links to them (even though they are not listed in search engines and not fully functioning - by any means - as of right now).

My challenge has always been that I'm not among the people who write "just for an audience" or "just for fun" (and who don't care at all about whether they can turn their enjoyment-writing into profit.  Neither, however, am I among the people whose only real interest in posting any writing online is in making money with it.  At times I wrote for either and both of those reasons, but I'm also someone who writes for reasons other than what it is I may get out of writing.  I don't mean to come across as arrogant, or as a "writing snob",  when I say this; but I often write with the hope that some reader somewhere may at least get some positive little thing from reading (and when I say "some positive little thing" I'm not referring to a repeat of information that the reader could have gotten anywhere else online or off).  There's also yet another reason that I write (and I won't go into here, but it's personal).


In any case, with all the reasons and purposes I have for writing in whatever "what-I-feel-like" writing time I have, it has become clear that all that writing needs a place where posting it makes some sense.  The blogs are, for now, that kind of place.  Over time one or another may become better developed, or else maybe I'll consolidate some and get rid of others.  For now they serve my own purposes, whether or not I have one or another listed in search engines.  They don't look like a lot of blogs often look, and they function the way a lot of blogs function.  One day they may if I feel as if they have enough substance to them that they're worth more regular attention from me.  For now, they're essentially a mostly "maybe-one-day" kind of long-term thing that's convenient for me.

Unfinished Feminism

Focus:  Ways in which feminism made little impact on women as recently as the present time.

Relationship Glitches

  Focus:  Observations and insights on some of the day-to-day (and sometimes not so "day-to-day"(difficulties in interpersonal relationships.

Lightness - For Women

  Focus:  The lighter, brighter and generally positive side of being a woman and "woman-kind" in general.

An "About-Children" Corner

  Focus:  Children and parenting

Storm Clouds and Wind Chimes

  Focus:  The smaller and larger of life matters/events that lead to stress/distress

Bootstraps and Breadboxes

  Focus:  Concerns/worries about money in the day-to-day lives of working and/or low-income individuals.

Life on Key

Focus:  Originally set up to feature the articles I most wanted featured, this site is (at least for now) one that features general-subject articles.


The Hat-Box Journal

Focus:  No particular focus, to be honest.  Originally, I had plans for this one.  For now, it's just kind of there.  Maybe I'll do more with it at some point.  Well, actually, it's not so much that I have no focus for "The Hat-Box Journal".  It's just that I only do so much of the kind of writing that fits that focus, which really is only about "just-writing".

No Senior Coffee

  Focus:  Based on the idea that a whole lot of people over "a certain age" don't feel any older than they ever have, this site aimed at those people "over a certain age" incorporated (but is not limited to) that idea.

Letters About Life and Me

  Focus:  This is just a personal space for posting whatever comes to mind.  The site is designed to create a very personal "mood" because of that.

Verbosity by ME

  Focus:  Inspired by the numbers of time I've read/heard people say how "nobody wants to read anything long", I thought I'd devote a whole blog to material that would be considered "too long to read" by many people in an Internet age.

Running on Two Cylinders

  Focus:  Aimed at addressing the challenge of keeping going, and keeping life normal, when faced with being overwhelmed and/or exhausted either because of having a lot to do, having exhaustion because of unrelenting/severe and/or long-term stress, or having mild depression.

On Adoption - Resources and Personal Notes

  Focus:  Offering some adoption resources and reading, this site also offers first-hand thoughts/writing as a mother of a child who happens to have been adopted.

The Premie Experience

  Focus:  Still in need of resources in addition to those already posted, the aim of this site is offer resources and reading for parents of premies; while also offering some limited first-hand experience with having (and caring for) a premature baby.

What's Wrong in American Schools


  Focus:  Still in its earliest stages, the aim of this site is (will be) to focus on some of the sometimes less obvious problems within the education system.

My Daughter's Engagement
Focus:  Inspired by my own daughter's engagement, the aim/plan for this site is to expand to offer material for the mothers (or others) whose own daughter's look forward to a wedding.

Memories, Magic and Meltdowns

  Focus:  Creative non-fiction with women readers in mind.

For Women Fifty and Up

  Focus:  At the title suggests, material aimed at women fifty and older.

The Aching Head Chronicles

  Focus:  The smaller, almost silly (ALMOST), aggravations of day-to-day life.

Wishnikery

  (Temporarily Offline) Focus:  This pure-silliness blog is written from the standpoint of one very busy troll doll.  Besides populating the blog with pure silliness, my other aim is to eventually incorporate some messages "from the WishNik" (troll doll) aimed at children.

A Christmas Card    (seasonal, of course)

  Focus:  Inspired by hearing many people say that they didn't feel much like Christmas a few years ago, this site is aimed at trying to offer both some ideas about dealing with not feeling very "Christmas-y", but also some material aimed at generating (maybe, and hopefully) a little Christmas spirit.

Drunk Driving and Speeding

Focus:  This site was never intended to become a fully functioning blog.  It was created with the idea of its being "an abbreviated blog with a message".  Basically, all it is is a couple of stories and some limited posts aimed at trying to make the loss caused by drunk driving and speeding feel more real to the reader.   It is simply a case of "Here's me.  Here's my personal experience.  Here's the Internet.  How can I not try to send this very important message that too few people ever seem to get."

"Fourth-Tier Writing Efforts:

Online-Writing Notes, Issues, and Dilemmas
 
Focus:  As the title suggests, this site contains material about issues and challenges associated with being an online writer.

The Lisa H. Warren Blog

Focus:  This blog was created as a "home-base" blog aimed at organizing my online writing that has been done under the pen name, "Lisa H. Warren".

Straight Talk Sort Of
 
Focus:  The original aim of this as-yet-still-under-developed site was to have a place online where I could get away from online writing communities and just write about the issues as I see them.  It will probably be consolidated with another "straight-talk type of" blog at some point.  For now it is, as they say, what it is.

Everyday Gadgets and Other Stuff

Focus:  Personal/informal reviews, comments and/or experiences related to a variety of products. (Temporarily offline "for renovations")
An Online Writer's Junk Drawer Focus:  Even with my personal aversion to the concept of offline "junk drawers", I realized that it might be kind of handy to have a "dumping ground" for some files I have and either don't know what to do with, or else material that really isn't fit for human consumption in its present state.

Just Getting Things Straight
 
Focus: This site, which remains yet to be adequately developed, is one I set up with the idea of getting away from writing more "neutral" material and instead finally writing about some of the more personal things/ideas in life that I need to write - but that I haven't yet decided I really wanted on the Internet.

What Are "Fourth Tier Writing Efforts"?


The blogs that I've placed under this category are those that focus primarily on writing (particularly, online writing).  Blogs are this category are essentially a symptom of my never-ending wheel-spinning and pondering about my own direction with regard to any efforts I put it on online writing.  Not that anyone will be holding his breath for this, but one of these days I'll actually get all those files of wheel-spinning and pondering onto one of my many writing-focused blogs.  In the meantime, this particular group of blogs exists for when/if I need a place to post that wheel-spinning, pondering and/or the occasional take on Internet writing.

In case you're curious about the "tier thing"...     Here are the "tiers" to which I've assigned my different purposes/types of writing:

Tier 1:    "Real" writing, which is writing I do either for someone else or as part of one of my own projects.

Tier 2:    Writing and set-up for my general (overall), online-writing, efforts (which, at it turns out) has amounted to the online writing's  having     taken on a life of its own.

Tier 3:    Blogs that focus on one subject/theme or another (or than my own online writing).  For now these are a low-end, long-term, type of thing for me.  As far as I'm concerned, all of the blogs I have today are on thin ice with regard to remaining in existence (at least until they, or I, do something that leads to a next step in what happens to them).

Tier 4:    I should have called "Tier 4", "For Tired" because whenever I don't feel up to, or have the time for, writing something more substantial I most often end up writing about writing.  And, if I don't write about writing I instead writing about thinking about writing (that type of aimless thing).  That happens partly because writing about writing is easy when one is too tired to write much else, but it also happens because there is a lot about writing online that I've always found "energy-draining" anyway.  As a result,
 sometimes there's a chicken-egg kind of thing when it comes to whether I get tired of writing first or whether the whole online-writing environment is just kind of wearing on a person.

Tier 5:   This is the writing I do on sites like writing sites - other people's sites.  Tier 5 shouldn't be under-estimated because I've built a little income stream from Tier 5.  Still (and in another chicken/egg type scenario), I've always altered my writing to try to make it fit well enough on some writing sites, but that, in itself, can contribute to not feeling particularly energized when it comes to that kind of writing.
Tier 6:   Tier 6 writing needs to be removed from one of the many back-burners on which any one or another of those projects just sits.  Tier 6 writing needs to become, say, Tier 2 (maybe even Tier 1) writing in the very near future (and I mean VERY near), but until now those projects (and there are several) have all been at the Tier 6 level.

Other Writing Post A

M E Whelan Online

This is an all-purpose, central, site for most of my online writing; and it includes a lot of extra information/material either as part of my trying to make this casual site a little more entertaining (or something).  Pretty much all my casual, online, writing is a matter of dumping stuff online and figuring out how to sort it all out later.  This site, in particular, is in need of major overhaul (and more), but until now it has (at least for the "free time"/"casual basis" writing) it has served as a good place to organize a bunch of material.  That's why I have not (again, at least for now) either deleted or set on "private" this particular site.

Words By ME Whelan 

Like the site/link immediately above, this blog is one of two pages/sites left with my name in the title.  Originally, I was both lazy in thinking up a title and also aiming to make it clear (mostly to myself) that these were "author-focused" pages/sites.  More accurately, maybe, "author-focused-turned-dumping-ground".  For now, this blog remains online, but until I either fix it up or get rid of it I'm leaving the link here in the "other writing/posting department".

Up Close and Interpersonal

"Up Close and Interpersonal" is another Wordpress blog which, along with this one here, are where I plan to start to put in some more serious efforts (at least as far as casual writing goes).

Educated Guesses and Common Sense (About Children)

Yet another Wordpress blog, the title of this one is self-explanatory.  The substance of this one is still in the relatively early stages even though it's been around for awhile and in different incarnations.

A Parent's Perspectives

This is one of a handful of "Perspectives" sites, and my aim is put together a site that offers a combination of personal perspective, thoughts, and maybe some insight; along with resources for the visitor who prefers more expert takes on a subject.  My aim - once I "migrate" the Perspectives sites - is that they will offer something more "serious" or "heavy duty" while also offering my own (more "light duty") material for visitors who may prefer that.  In other words, the aim is to have something for everyone - but besides further developing the Perspectives sites as far as offerings go, I need to tie together the different types of material in a more cohesive way.

Perspectives - Social Issues

The title of this "Perspectives" site is self-explanatory, although the site remains at a close-to-embryonic stage of development.  It won't take long to improve that situation.  It's all a matter of remembering to get back to the site and give it a little attention.

Perspectives - Relationships

This one isn't a whole lot more developed than the Social Issues one (although there are actually some worthy videos on there).  In any case, there's not a lot of point saying much about this one right now.

Divorce Perspectives

This one actually has quite a bit of material on it, and my aim for this one is that it become a site (even if a "migrated" site) that offers some real substance to a very real problem.

Words and Then Some

The fact that this site and the ME Whelan Online site both exist is an indication of my not knowing how, exactly, I was going to shift away from using a long-time pen-name gracefully.  One of these sites is going.  The aim for the other is to put some finishing touches on it and essentially "seal" it as far as future material goes.  (Well, my aim is to either "seal" or else out-and-out delete a whole lot of the material I have online right now.  It's just that it's a big project to do all that, and I really don't want to do anything prematurely and end up regretting some things.)

Just Pictures of Clouds

This one is another one with a self-explanatory title.  I can't even believe I have the nerve to have this one online, because the pictures really do leave a lot to be desired.  BUT, what I've learned about so many of these "hobby-type" efforts (whether writing or pictures - I won't even call it "photography") is that the first step in moving things past a "rough draft" kind of stage is just to get material gathered together and in one place.  From there any clean-up or build-up can start to happen - or not, in which case there's always deleting.