The Future of this Blog

On Monday I posted the last part of the Early Life chapter of World History, almost a year and half after posting the first chapter. It has taken far longer than I expected or wanted. Still, I am happy with the end result.

In the past few weeks, I’ve thought long and hard on the future of this blog. I think one part of why I had a hard time blogging on this blog, especially in the last two years, is the fact that I didn’t want this blog to be cut-and-dry rehashing of history, yet that is exactly what it was becoming.

I decided to think back to just what I was trying to accomplish with this blog, and what I wanted to be doing. First and foremost, I wanted this blog to be a journal of my travels through world history and the history of the Netherlands as I did self study. Since that self study has fallen to the side, my blog posts tapered off to almost nothing. Yet it is something I still want to do and have recently returned to.

So while that took care of the basic posts on this blog, that still didn’t get me back my joy in blogging. Nor would it crank up the volume, so to speak, of blog posts, since the basic posts take study – and thus time – for me to write. But when I looked at that problem, I found that it was mainly the topic that caused that.

I like supplementing my history study with cooking recipes from that time period, going to museums that deal with that time period, and reading historical fiction pertaining from that period. None of that was possible with Early Life. There are no humans cooking, very few museums dealing with it, and no historical fiction about it. So more ‘fun’ posts were hardly possible about that period. But the next topic is dinosaurs. There are no recipes from that time period, but enough museums and even fiction books to have that I can make enough ‘fun’ posts to keep it entertaining, both for myself and readers.

Therefore, I’ve decided to keep going. A new chapter of history is dawning. Dinosaurs are roaming the Earth!