What was the last thing you searched for online? Why were you looking for it?
The last thing I searched for was whether I’d published one or two versions of my ‘Beadnell love story’ — I had a hunch I’d duplicated it. Sure enough, there it was: one as a post, one as a page, each with minor differences. This discovery nudged me into a welcome bit of housekeeping (with AI assistance): reviewing how I use posts versus pages across my blog.
I’ve now clarified my approach: posts will be for individual short stories or novella chapters — dated, tagged, discoverable; pages will act as curated hubs — collections, chapter lists, or galleries linking to complete works.
This matters to me not just for organisation’s sake, but because it supports the way I work: developing ideas across multiple projects, publishing as part of that process. I’ve been blogging and working online for 25 years now, long before “the cloud” became the default. Back then, getting something online was a kind of insurance — a way to locate and preserve creative work in a way no CD-ROM, DVD, or dusty hard drive could guarantee.
Even today, I can find a blog post from 2005 in seconds — but locating a script on an old backup drive? That’s another story. Posting remains a marker in the ground, a commitment to progress, and a way to invite feedback. Stories I only have as print-outs like ‘Sardines’, ‘Escape from Alien Zoo’, ‘The Little Duke’ and ‘The Contents of My Mind’ come to mind — early experiments in screenwriting from another era — still to digitise, so not lost.
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