So this is the new blog. Wel­come.

As you’ve prob­a­bly noticed if you’ve poked around, there has already been a PHENOMENAL amount of work that has gone into what exists so far. Pages with menus. A lot of arti­cles moved over. This is all Rhap­sody who has been amaz­ing.

Seri­ous­ly, I’m a Pak­led when it comes to tech­nol­o­gy. Rhap­sody found me and I said, “We look for things. Things to make our blog go.”

Then she made some kind of tem­plate block pat­tern thing, and I said, “She is smart!”

But there’s so much more to come. We’re doing a lot more than just, “Hey, we’re over here now!” Here is rough­ly what we have planned for fusion of the old Blog­ger-site Writ­ing About Writ­ing with our new and improved The Cook­ie Crum­bles. Now… if you’ve been read­ing for a while, you know I have over-promised and under-deliv­ered too many times since hav­ing can­cer (and let’s be honest—I was­n’t too hot BEFORE can­cer), so I’ve left out spe­cif­ic update sched­ules and giv­en a very exten­sive timetable for the var­i­ous phas­es.

Phase One: Com­plete! (Blows par­ty pop­pers, and has cel­e­bra­to­ry LSD-fueled three­some!)

The blog is pub­lished, the main menus are set. A week of schem­ing and anoth­er full month of work from Rhap­sody and me (her learn­ing Word­Press design at son­ic speed and me writ­ing up a storm). There are a lot of arti­cles that have come over from the old blog to give The Cook­ie Crum­bles SOME con­tent. Tem­plates were made. We launched. There were tears. Most­ly mine.

Phase Two: As of this moment, we enter Phase Two. It involves try­ing to get out as many NEW arti­cles as I can put out as well as a wide sam­pling of arti­cles about all the new top­ics, so that those menus aren’t sit­ting in the cold with an “Under Con­struc­tion” sign and no con­tent. A lot of this con­tent is ready or most­ly ready to go right now. Stuff about non-monogamy. About fight­ing fas­cism. About writ­ing. We should be able to come out swing­ing and real­ly drop some gems to cel­e­brate the roll­out.

At this phase, most of the links on the Word­Press site will still actu­al­ly LINK to their old loca­tions on the Blog­ger blog just so there aren’t dead links or emp­ty pages. The new blog will be a lot of skele­tal struc­ture (pages and menus), and I’ll start get­ting to work pop­u­lat­ing those pages.



Phase Two‑B: While I am fran­ti­cal­ly try­ing to write as much as I can to pop­u­late emp­ty menus and touch base (at least a lit­tle) on ALL the top­ics this blog is going to cov­er, Rhap­sody is going to be mak­ing improve­ments, stream­lin­ing func­tion­al­i­ty, tweak­ing the look, and gen­er­al­ly help­ing me behind the scenes. So you might not mere­ly notice more get­ting writ­ten, but also notice the blog actu­al­ly get­ting even bet­ter.

Phase Two‑C: I’ve been wait­ing a long time to feel like I was doing “enough” to launch a major appeal effort, but mon­ey has been tight for a while now. I love being a CPT (also) but I need SO many clients to make up for lost writ­ing income, and I want to be writ­ing at least half the time. So as this sec­ond phase comes to an end (prob­a­bly in a cou­ple of months), I’ll be run­ning a more exten­sive appeal.

Phase Three: Phase Three starts a long process of mov­ing much of the best sub­stance of the Blog­ger blog over to Word­Press. It’s prob­a­bly going to take a year or two (or three?). We will prob­a­bly start these clas­sic reposts in Phase Two to help flesh out the rapid fire con­tent (and give me a bit of a break), but they will have an uptick—probably two a week dur­ing this phase.

The mov­ing arti­cles over isn’t the prob­lem. (That’s just a data­base trans­fer issue.) What will take a while is that EACH post going up will have a 2025 revi­sion (and most of them will be get­ting an editor’s touch for the first time). I will be pick­ing WHICH arti­cles, based on the com­pi­la­tion ebooks that are about to start com­ing out, so you can expect all our reruns to be as close to pro­fes­sion­al and pub­lish­able as I can get them. 
It’s the stamp of approval on every arti­cle for twelve years (thou­sands of them) and mak­ing sure they all link—and ARE linked—properly. Much more than copy/pasta.

This part might also take a year or two, if I’m being hon­est with myself.

Phase Three‑B: Rhap­sody gets to slow down dur­ing this part. She’ll still be my web­site maven, but most of the for­mat­ting and tem­plates should be dri­ving them­selves by then. Though she is prob­a­bly going to change hats and help me for­mat ebook com­pi­la­tions of “Best of” arti­cles. As for the blog though, I should only need to whine at her to “Make it go.” if some­thing goes wrong.

Phase Four: Phase Four is the even longer oper­a­tion of mov­ing over every­thing that I’m not going to revise, but that I don’t want to leave behind. Not every­thing will be mov­ing (some of it is REALLY trash), but a lot of it WILL come over even­tu­al­ly. Phase Four is where I will try to stay vig­i­lant against dead links and flip over any final arti­cles that might not nec­es­sar­i­ly go into a com­pi­la­tion, but will def­i­nite­ly break my heart to leave behind. When this phase is over, I will prob­a­bly delete the Blog­ger.


So we’re doing a bit more than just going right on writ­ing over here.