# Current Outlets for Informal Writing **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 9, 2021, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-outlets-for-informal-writing/948334 "2021-08-09T20:09:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Little\_Room](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_room/32/5069_2.png) [@Little\_Room](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Room)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2021, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-outlets-for-informal-writing/948334/1 "2021-08-09T20:09:52Z")
Way back in the oldish days (by which I mean 10 - 15 years ago), I kept up a blog, which is no more. I let this kind of writing go to the wayside once I started grad school/simultaneous full time work and didn’t really have time for it anymore. My life can accommodate this a little better now, and I’d like to get back out there. However, I know the landscape has changed. How do people do this kind of personal reflective/commentary/thoughtful type writing in 2021? You know, like the sort of thing you used to see on the better blogs? Please, god, tell me that the answer isn’t just, “no one does this anymore, you just pop off on Twitter and that’s about it”. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2021, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-outlets-for-informal-writing/948334/2 "2021-08-09T20:19:24Z")
Depending on what your end goal is here, you might try reddit. ---
**Author:** ![PB\_J](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6de8d8/32.png) [@PB\_J](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PB_J)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2021, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-outlets-for-informal-writing/948334/3 "2021-08-09T20:46:25Z")
[Medium.com](http://Medium.com) might be what you are looking for. ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2021, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-outlets-for-informal-writing/948334/4 "2021-08-09T21:49:51Z")
To state the obvious, right here? ---
**Author:** ![Esprise\_Me](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprise_me/32/2947_2.png) [@Esprise\_Me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprise_Me)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2021, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-outlets-for-informal-writing/948334/5 "2021-08-09T21:53:10Z")
What sort of writing do you intend to do? Whom are you hoping to reach? I have a fair number of Facebook friends who periodically write thoughtful stuff. I’m not sure what the character limit is, but you get a lot more room than on Twitter. Some also link to pieces they write elsewhere. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2021, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-outlets-for-informal-writing/948334/6 "2021-08-09T21:54:01Z")
I transferred my old blog to [dreamwidth.org](http://dreamwidth.org). I originally posted it at [livejournal.com](http://livejournal.com), but I found out livejournal is RUSSIAN now! I need things to settle down just a bit more, then I hope to return to my blog. ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2021, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-outlets-for-informal-writing/948334/7 "2021-08-09T21:57:38Z")
Ask @JohnT~he seems to know. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2021, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-outlets-for-informal-writing/948334/8 "2021-08-09T23:11:15Z")
Blogs are less common than they were. but they still exist. I read a few occasionally. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2021, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-outlets-for-informal-writing/948334/9 "2021-08-10T01:03:23Z")
Read this as “Current Outlets for Informal **Wiring** ” There are still blogs out there, not sure the best platform. Brian ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2021, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-outlets-for-informal-writing/948334/10 "2021-08-10T01:27:30Z")
> [@N9IWP](#): > > Read this as “Current Outlets for Informal **Wiring** ” If you get too informal about wiring your outlets, you may get clobbered by the current – ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-outlets-for-informal-writing/948334/11 "2021-08-11T02:28:52Z")
Oh, I do hope blogs make a comeback, just so my friend’s t-shirt will make sense again: . **More people have** . . **read this shirt** . **than your blog . . .** . Seriously, I hope you blog here. Just start a MPSIMS thread titled “Little Thoughts from a Little Room” and get writing. Or if you do a separate blog, link to it in a thread. I think JohnT does that.