Thudfactor

I have a bit of content that will soon outgrow its space. I originally planned to use thudfactor as a laboratory. Someplace I could work on online projects without having to get a domain name for each project. Once a project outgrew the space, I figgured I could then spin it off.

It’s time for the Thudfactor Reviews to be spun off. How to do it, though, is bugging me.

The reviews module is running off a content management system I wrote myself. I’m pretty proud of it, really, but I want to do a lot more with it and I don’t have the time write now to expand the application that much. So I’ve been shopping around for something to take its place. Moveable Type, as cool as it is, is not really the right tool for the job. At least I don’t think it is…

I am suddenly in doubt. Maybe it is the right tool. Hmm. That would make me feel pretty damn silly.

Anyone have any ideas what I should do with the reviews section? Anyone even aware of it? It’s older than the weblog, actually. I started that because I wanted to write regularly and needed writing practice. I had, at one point, planned to be a writer. But after college it all trickled away, and then I reallized I never really knew how to write, or more accurately edit. But looking over my old reviews, I think I’ve come a long way.

My first problem was I didn’t write, mostly out of fear of writing something bad. So I forced myself to write and post, write and post. Slowly I got enough confidence in that I was able to learn how to edit, a skill I was never properly taught. Now it takes me much, much longer to write a large piece than it ever did, but I feel a lot better about my writing when it’s done.

So if you don’t want to answer my self-serving question above, why don’t you answer this one: if you have a weblog, do you think weblogging has improved your writing? I think it has improved mine.