Dropping the Daily
I was in a rut. My life had become a sea of avoiding writing, while simultaneously working on a new blog post each day and working on school projects in between. Something had to be done, or I was going to lose it. The answer came in the most unlikely fashion. I had just spent the better part of two or three hours working for the 2014 update to my blog graphics (which I promise I will wait, okay attempt to wait, until 2014 to unveil) when I realized I was spending more time working on perfecting my blog than I was on actually writing. I needed a change. What I really needed was a break from blogging. Shortly before this revelation I had decided that I no longer wanted to be the Daily Racewood.
Initially I had come up with Daily Racewood monicker to showcase the fact that I was blogging everyday. I wanted to show it loud and proud. Instead, I drove myself insane trying to blog everyday rather than write. Once I knew I wanted to drop the Daily Racewood the question was, what next? The Weekly Racewood didn’t quite have the same ring to it, and I really didn’t want to postdate the blog as being either a daily or a weekly deal. The next most obvious choice was to go back to something I had previously used. Magically Yours being the most recent. I quickly decided however that I didn’t want to go backwards anymore than I wanted to put a date on my blog. I needed something completely fresh (it was only after I announced my break that I realized that I needed a fresh storyline as well).
A quickly complied a list of interesting names:
The Cult: If it’s good enough for the magazine it’s good enough for the blog right?
The Racewood Post/Times/Chronicle/Gazette/Prophet: All the most common additions to newspapers and one nod to Harry Potter’s the Daily Prophet (though one could argue it’s also a Cultish reference).
The Propaganda Machine: This particular blog title was my plan to further embrace the Cult theme I had created for myself. The problem of course being that the point of the blog would likely be lost in translation for potentially new followers. It also meant changing the title of my podcast to Propaganda Radio. Deliciously controversial in theory, but the last thing I wanted to do was give the impression that my blog was some sort of right-wing conspiracy theory site.
Ultimately I was left with the Racewood Post and the Cult. Whatever else I could say about the titles in question something about the Cult seemed better suited for the forthcoming magazine than it did the blog (and while I’m all for continuity between the two) ultimately something about the Racewood Post simply fit in a way that I couldn’t quite explain. Admittedly it did take me a minute to get used to the change, but the best part is I’m now not bound under the terms of the daily theme and therefore if I decide not to make a blog post every single day I am free to do so. As it stands I’d like to continue blogging daily (or scheduling posts to go up daily), but it’s nice to have the option if I so chose.
