since cohost is shutting down, i figured i'd share some stuff i was working on in my drafts and talk about how this site impacted me.
as i stated in my very first post on here, i used cohost primarily as a destination to stretch my hands writing. to really test my chops and sharpen my skills by posting a few blogs here and there. i may have only posted a handful in the past year+ since joining but i was always workshopping more in the background.
i exhibit obsessive compulsive traits and am woefully beholden to perfectionism in my creative endeavors. so more often than not writing a post has taken the form of a big project that gets refined as i scale it down over time. recently i've fired off a few "written in one go with minor editing" posts just to let some ideas live and not have to form them over time and that has been a wonderful exercise too. sometimes you need to just let thoughts leave your brain even if they're potent ones.
of everything i posted on cohost, my two favorite pieces are the ones i worked the hardest on. trying for 30 years to take off the mask and the inherent romanticism of looking at jpegs. both are full blown article length pieces with an emotional attachment to them that i feel is indicative of my writing style. my voice as a writer lives and breathes in these posts. i would enjoy very much if you read them. i also think my write up on the most interesting movies i watched in 2023 was pretty good, if a little lengthy. probably gonna make that a yearly tradition.
moving forward, i want to continue to grow as a writer. it's a creative outlet that feels the most freeing to me right now. i keep talking about it on here, but there are two paths in which this passion is going to take me. first of all, i want to make my own website. a real honest to god domain with a blog component. there i hope to let more of my writing live on its own and forever remain as an immovable capsule. but to let my writing grow, blossom, and hopefully reach more people than the handful who see it currently, i'm gonna start making youtube videos. it's a scary world out there in that space and i will have to deal with the blows of the platform as they come, but i think creatively it is an outlet i am destined to be drawn to. maybe i can finally put this film degree to use that way.
