As my head slowly lifts from the weight of Project X — finally lifting slightly, the end is in sight — I find that once again, ideas are percolating in my brain. They narrowed themselves down to two, fortunately, but even those two portend a lot of changes in my online life, as I feel the need to drastically refocus. Last week’s fire scare has cast into sharp relief many things about our life that I hadn’t noticed, and as such I’ve been gearing up for a massive house cleaning and purging.

As odd as it may seem, I’ve taken the same attitude and approach to my online “belongings”, and am choosing to imagine my server on fire, and what sites I would save if I had to pick and choose. There are things I would never close, for sheer stubbornness, for nostalgia… there are others that, while I’m very fond of all sites I run currently, aren’t doing much for me anymore. I’m tired of empty sites. Lenneth and I were just today discussing the disturbing lack of fan-shrines for various anime/manga fandoms, the lack of real hearty content, and I find myself longing to put more content out there, and less fluff.

So things will be changing here at the OK Corral. Firstly, I plan to launch not one but two new topical weblogs next month, and contribute to a third. I will be, yes, adopting out some TFL fanlistings. I will be closing my NaNoWriMo blog, and blogging about that experience here from now on — it seems silly to have a once-a-year weblog. Other things may come up as well, I’m not sure how far this will go, but I finally feel like I have some achievable goals in my writing, and I’m starting them now.

On an unrelated (but related) note, I just left a long-ass comment here (#97) and, well, may be reconsidering my hosting options for both my personal sites, clients and TAFL, depending on how things play out. I may not move everything eventually, but I’m secretly relieved that my Big Client #3 hasn’t signed up for hosting yet, as I have a chance to change to what I hope will be a more reliable solution for them. I’ve loved Dreamhost for a long time now, and it’s very upsetting to see the service and up-time go south. (Their support for TAFL, in particular, has been dismal at best. Three weeks’ worth of email-tennis to figure out that our emailing limit needed resetting? THREE WEEKS??)

Anyway, before anyone freaks out, no, I’m not closing any TAFL fanlistings, my shrines are staying right where they are… etc. [starts waves of panic amongst readership] I’m adopting out a few things, I’m ceding co-ownership here and there, and I’m condensing. That is ALL. But I think it’ll be enough. Anything, to get more time to write, to go back to the exciting projects I long to work on….