Alright. You got me. Slight exaggeration there. What can I say, I got excited.
This post is my ONE HUNDRED…TH… POST!
Still a bit of an accomplishment, I like to think. I’ve been writing here for eight months now, and that time has simply flown by. I absolutely love having a regular output for writing in my life, now, for the first time ever. Since college, anyway. And that doesn’t really count. And it has meant the world to me to have a venue for expressing a passion for food and cooking when once there was none.
I do consider, sometimes, whether there might have been – or may still be – some kind of career for me with food. Or with writing, for that matter. I don’t know. I do know I’ve never wanted to be a restaurant chef (any amount of time in the restaurant industry should tell you rather quickly whether it’s a place you want to stay or not), and I also know that I’m pretty content with what I’m doing now. But it’s been a great step for me to launch this blog, to have something that keeps me going and keeps me focused on this passion – and I have learned so much. I’ve learned about cooking, and food, but I’ve learned about writing too. I’ve learned about marketing, even. It’s kind of the gift that keeps on giving.
And then there are some days when I feel it runs my life, just a bit. I never quite anticipated the sort of pressure I might feel sometimes from undertaking such an endeavor – even though, of course, it’s all self-imposed. Of course I want to do the best I can and deliver the best content I can, all the time. But that’s a tall order.
Those of you who follow my blog closely may be aware (but probably not) that I post on a M-W-F schedule, and have been on that schedule pretty much since the launch. As I cross into the triple digits of posting, I’m scaling back to 2x a week, on a Tu-Th schedule. There are a number of reasons for this, some of which I’ll be talking about here in the coming months. But mostly I just need a bit of a breather. I don’t anticipate this as a permanent change, or really even think it a terribly significant one, but hey who knows what might come.
I love writing this blog, and I have no intention of stopping. Thank you all for reading MSCK, and for all the intelligent discussions and comments that have come from it.
