{"id":383,"date":"2013-10-13T01:37:56","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T01:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weird8.com\/?p=6"},"modified":"2013-10-13T01:37:56","modified_gmt":"2013-10-13T01:37:56","slug":"what-is-weird-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weird8.com\/index.php\/2013\/10\/13\/what-is-weird-8\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Weird 8?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fake it until you make it. That’s been my motto for 2013.<\/p>\n

Weird8 is my new home on the web.<\/p>\n

Yes, I have a twitter account (@SokolowskiDave), and will be opening up a new Facebook page, but I need to have a place on the web that is application-neutral. A home away from home.<\/p>\n

I’ve had blogs before, in various states, and I know what it takes to make them work. For better or worse, I really have no have choice other than to make this blog work.<\/p>\n

This blog has three main components:<\/p>\n

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  1. Serve as a home for all writing things by Dave Sokolowski (that’s me). Starting next year, I will kick off a series of Kickstarters to produce gaming and non-gaming materials that I have written. This is the main place where I will talk about them.<\/li>\n
  2. This will be a place for me to go “meta.” I will talk about why I’m writing things and, more importantly, how the whole social media thing applies to building a readership. If you want to learn first-hand how a writer goes from zero to hero (nice cliche’), then this is the place.<\/li>\n
  3. I will just write about whatever I want, which will mostly include music reviews and interviews with other writers. The most important component of writing is to keep writing, so when I’ve got nothing specific to write about, I will write music reviews and interview other writers. Both will be fun and interesting.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So here we are at ground zero. If you’re reading this, then things are going much better than I would have anticipated. Everything flows from here.<\/p>\n

    Lastly, a huge set of thanks to Wade, who helped me get this thing up and running. Glad to have him as a friend, and more on his awesomeness later.<\/p>\n

    Onward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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