Hello Void

Ah to be a web content writer before the advent of metrics.

To shout into the void for the joy of creation alone, dreaming of the ambiguous reader who might devour your content eagerly, awaiting every morsel.

To carefully format and code, knowing yours is a site that no one might see, but your existence was as fleeting as any others, for search engines were fickle things.

To be a carefree creator, making the thing, in the hopes that They might come.

For those who are wondering, the title "hello void" is a nod to the fact most programmer's first programs are to print the words "hello world" on their screen. But I do not aspire for this to be seen by the whole world. I honestly expect statistically insignificant views on it in the long run. Ergo, I say "hello void" to embrace it.

I wrote the above... poem? Prose? (Pay no attention to my English degree. I don't know what to call it; I just wrote it.)

I wrote the above after a long day of work. I am a website content editor, which means hypothetically I need to ensure webpages do the good marketing things like getting traffic and following SEO trends. I am more than happy to do so, because the challenge of writing in such a way can be fun and invigorating.

Some days, however, I miss the era where everyone just had a web location that they dumped all their stuff onto. No concern over whether or not it bolstered the core message of your platform. What even was a platform? The joy was in creating and putting it out there. Potentially, if you were lucky, someone would stumble across it and be inspired by it.

I write a lot, but it is hard to get the courage to post this content anywhere because "good web practice" says to create a multitude of faces on the internet, one for each aspect of your life. And as I sit down working on a novel series (because I don't do half measures apparently), I realize I care more about getting the words out than I do the actual audience size of the thing. I'd rather one person who really needs to hear it get the message than a hundred who might vaguely enjoy it.

The goal of this "publication" is to write without concern and just know the words are out there.

Hello, Schrödinger's Reader. It is nice to theoretically reach you.