8 Clicks from Nowhere Productions

Tag: blogging for fun

  • Impossible Summit

    It’s easy to aim too high when we start a new project. It’s easy to think that anything we create should be a final, salable product to hold up to the whole world for judgement. It’s actually pretty tough to recognize that almost everything we make should start off as something just for our own selves and maybe never become more than that.

    I am just starting out on this project and I have not only accepted that every new post is not going to be a gem of enlightenment and a spark of insight. 

    I have decades of writing experience, but even so, the idea of generating something interesting to say five times a week is daunting and seems as though an endless mountain is rising in front of me.

    Yet.

    The climb is the point. 

    I may never reach that impossible summit.

    And anyone who creates needs to be okay with that idea.

    Nothing here is meant to be a final, salable product held up for judgement because most of it is just for myself, yes, shared with the world but nothing more than that.

    January 13 – Audio Version

  • Weightless Words

    Who knows what this site will look like by the time you are reading this post, but as I am writing it I have just launched this blog and, bluntly, it’s using a pretty boring template.

    In deciding on a design with which to start I weighed a single consideration: I wanted the words to be the central focus of what I was making. I was not planning on posting photos or art. I was not linking to videos. I was not trying to wow visitors with a unique and clever design.

    I wanted the words to be the point.

    Me of ten years ago would have clutched his metaphorical pearls—or whatever guys who don’t wear pearls might clutch in such a situation. Use your imagination. As it was back then, perhaps lacking confidence in my ideas or writing, I would merrily post but fill the screen with visual clutter and links and metadata.

    Today, I am boldly posting these words without the flourish of fancy headers and kooky fonts and in doing so perhaps suggesting through their simple form and format that the words are sturdy enough on their own merit.

  • Two Hundred

    Any project should have both goals and parameters.

    I wrote about the goals in my first post.

    The parameters are a little less interesting, but equally important.

    For example, the parameters of the blog are me writing on topics of creativity, skill development, writing, music, art, and code while avoiding anything more than the vaguest of superficial mentions of politics, business or this human emotion that you call… love.

    Also, my key logistical parameter is to keep my posts within sight of two hundred words. Two hundred is a digestible bit of content for anyone to read… and for me to write. It is enough words to convey a simple idea or thought while not being exceptionally onerous for a daily blog post. 

    (Especially true since I am already working on a daily five hundred word goal for my fiction.) 

    Finally, I am leaving the comments open for the moment. If you convey yourself as a real person who wants to make a serious on-topic point I may even approve your comment and reply.

    But that makes for about a hundred and seventy-five words so I’d better sign off alas I break my own rules before I even really begin.

    January 6, 2026 – Audio version

  • HelloWorld

    My new year’s resolution for 2026 was to evict myself from corporate social media.

    But stepping away from public platforms does not need to mean taking a vow of electronic silence. The professional blog may seem old school and a bit retro, but there’s something classic and suave about owning your own platform and creating your own space on the internet.

    My goals here are simple: Write something every weekday. Be provocative about creativity. Spark feats of imagination. And lead a charge back towards making interesting things for their own sake, not merely for clicks or likes or influence.

    Hello world.

    January 5, 2026 – Audio version