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I started this blog last year to keep my friends and family informed about what I’m up to and to write down some of my thoughts. Things were pretty open-ended, which was good if I wanted to keep a miscelanneous scratchpad for thoughts and activities. But I really want to bring those regular Ken vs. The City readers a little bit more in the way of content.
I’ll be launching a new design for this website some time in the next few weeks. It’s one of several projects I’ve been working on in my spare time. As part of the re-design I want to start posting more regularly, and limiting the subjects I post about to three areas I’m interested in: writing (creative and journalism), new media (podcasting, video, etc.), and my search for freelance work.
Like many who come to New York, I had a general idea of what I wanted to accomplish in the City when I first moved here. But now that I’ve been here for more than a year, those ideas are starting to become more and more defined. I’m notoriously scatterbrained when it comes to
setting goals and making decisions. A years’ worth of percolating almost always boils down my grand illusions into real practical goals.
So here’s what I’m going to start posting about:
- Weekly creative writing updates – a brief post on what creative projects I’ve been working on for that particular week, as well as some thoughts on the creative writing process.
- Unconventional writing exercises – a series of mini writing projects to exercise my creative writing skills. I’ll try to avoid the typical exercises you find in writing books. I might post an exercise every two weeks, leaving it open to see what other people come up with, and posting my own responses on opposite weeks.
- Interview of the moment - I’ll try and interview some random person in the city about their own experiences both proefessionally and spiritually. I’m not sure how often I’ll be able to do this, but I love doing interviews, and it sounds like fun. I may even post the audio and turn it into a podcast.
- Media production update - a brief post on what I’m up to in the new media arena, namely the Haven Nation podcast, but also other projects I happen to be working on at the time.
- Freelance update - I’m absolutely terrible about tracking down freelance projects. Hopefully posting regularly about what markets I’m looking at, and how I’m going about persuing them will encourage me to do more and get some feedback from Kvs.C readers. I’ll also include thoughts on writing for the Web, SEO-friendly copy, journalistic integrity, etc. (all things I’m interested in)
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