I’ve streamlined Critical Margins (and a life update)
I’m done self-hosting my site and dealing with the headaches that come with it. I’ve moved Critical Margins over to Medium (all the links should redirect with no problems).
Why the move to Medium? I want to keep things simple. I don’t need all the features of a self-hosted blog. I want to focus on writing and nothing else. Medium allows me to do that with no headaches.
It’s been well over a year since I’ve published anything on this site, and a lot has changed in that year. I seriously considered deleting this site and starting over, but I just couldn’t do it. I love what I created here.
But life gets in the way, and interests change. I have two kids now — a two-year-old son and a nine-month-old daughter — and I watch them during the day while my wife works. I also, somehow, manage to squeeze in a full-time freelance editing career in the evenings and weekends. Blogging, as much as I love it, is not a high priority for me right now. I hope that will change soon, but we’ll see.
My interests have changed a bit, too. Digital publishing, and e-books in particular, just don’t hold my interest. There’s evidence e-books are not the revolution they were promised years ago when I started Critical Margins. Nothing wrong with that, it just means it’s time to change my focus.
I want Critical Margins to interest me and also engage my readers. I have ideas, and I hope to develop those in the months to come. I’d like to loosen up, take it slow, and build from there. This site means too much to me to give up on it.
On another note, I’m on Instagram a lot (you can find me at pensandtype) and I posted this photo of my typewriter, coffee, and notebook. This photo comes to represent the direction in which I hope to take this site. I’m still writing, just not on my computer as much. I prefer to go offline more and use my pens and notebooks, and yes, typewriters, too.
