Muddled thinking about movie blogging

[randy_byers]

Yesterday I went back through my 2010 posts on film -- and I didn't make it all the way, because I wrote a lot about film in 2010. I liked a fair number of my more ambitious posts, and it got me thinking -- again -- about trying to make my film writing more accessible. I block search engines on my LiveJournal just to make it slightly harder for the uninitiated to find the personal writing here. Mostly I'm not eager for my family to find this. I prefer to interact with them on Facebook.

So how do I make my film writing discoverable by search engines but not my other LJ writing? I could start a separate LJ dedicated to film writing (and maybe other non-personal writing too). I could Friends-lock all my personal writing on this journal and unblock the journal as a whole from search engines. One problem I have with the latter solution is the amount of work it would take to go through my whole journal Friends-locking personal posts. The problem I have with the former solution is the amount of work it would take to transfer my past film writing to a new location. On the other hand, I could just start a film journal from scratch and forget all my fucking-brilliant past work. But then I also worry that if I started writing about film for an anonymous (i.e., open) audience, I would start over-thinking it. As I am probably over-thinking this whole issue right here, right now.

And so once more inertia wraps me in its ample arms.

I suppose another option would be to Friends-lock all my past posts in this journal (there's a way to do it globally, isn't there?), unblock the search engines, and then write unlocked posts going forward that I don't mind being searchable. I could unlock past posts on film as I had the time and interest in doing so. Hm.

Comments

[replyhazy.livejournal.com]

1. I love your film writing.

2. Somebody (maybe Hal?) posted recently that they backed up their LJ to a Wordpress blog. Maybe it's not just a mass export tool. Maybe you can pick and choose.

3. I have a separate dye blog from my LJ blog. The writing is different to an extent... and I don't update it as often... but because it's easily accessible via google I've had some very interesting people contact me to talk about dye work. So I do recommend that path.

[voidampersand.livejournal.com]

You could publish a fanzine. Everything on efanzines.com gets indexed.

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

I thought about separating my writing out into two LJs, but then I wondered how many people would follow the other one. Global f'locking is possible, but then you have to leave it that way, and unlock each post you want to have open individually.

[(Anonymous)]

Sounds like your last self-suggestion might work best, but then I haven't read any of the comments yet. [RD in anon mode]

[reverendjim.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was thinking of the last system reading this; but you have thought of it. If you do end up setting up a separate blog for film stuff stick links on here or I'll keep forgetting to look at it. Which would be wrong.
Oh, and while you're at it, you can set up your beer blog.

[swisstone.livejournal.com]

I just want to add that I really like your film blogging, and a paper collection of it would be no bad thing.