The Coerablog is my fiction workshop. I have a very big story in my head, or rather a bunch of interrelated stories, and I need a place to keep notes and pictures and timelines and works in progress. With a blog I’m online – I can work from anywhere I have a connection, and I can add an idea whenever I have it; I don’t have to worry about a computer crash destroying everything (though I do need to back up the site every now and again); and I have the opportunity to share what I’m working on with everyone else.
That brings me to a refinement: the Coerablog is a glass-front workshop, like you might see in an artists’ wind (rhymes with “mind”), or in a museum where the archaeologists are dusting off bones for you to watch. It’s a place for me to work, but I hope it’s interesting enough for people to pop in and watch for a bit, and maybe poke around.
The Coerablog was originally hosted by Blogspot/Blogger.com, which is a great service, but the lack of category support forced me into an awkward organization through backdating. WordPress promises to be much easier to work with in that respect.
Sorry if this whole project seems disjointed, but that’s the nature of my mind. Click on the about links in the right nav – hopefully they should explain it!
