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Splotchy: What is your blog?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grant Miller: Grant Miller Media<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

S: When and why did you start blogging?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

GM: \u00a0I started around 2006 or 2007. My initial purpose was to share stories about my life as a stay-at-home dad to my then toddler kids. My earliest posts followed that. But then it quickly devolved into making joke posts and or ripping off Spy Magazine\/David Letterman\/The Onion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

S: Did you stop blogging?<\/em> \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GM: I slowed considerably after moving from Illinois to Florida in 2010 and stopped entirely in about 2014. I made it private around that time and only re-opened it a few years ago by request.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

S: What were any factors that contributed to stopping?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

GM: I quit because my kids were getting older. I wasn\u2019t stay-at-home dadding as much. I was working more. I was also recently divorced and trying to establish a social life in Florida and get myself out of the house. On top of that blogging didn\u2019t pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

S: Do you ever miss it? Do you think you’ll ever pick it up again?\u00a0 Why or why not?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

GM: I don\u2019t miss blogging too much. I miss the naivety as the best blogging years were mostly pre-Facebook. I don\u2019t anticipate picking it up again. There are lots of people who do it a lot better. Middle aged white guys have already ruined the World Wide Web, they don\u2019t need me to make everything Worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

S: I know you have an interest in photography in addition to writing. Do you feel social media is a satisfying outlet for your photography? Why or why not?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

GM: Social media is a satisfying outlet for those photos, but I\u2019m selective because I don\u2019t want to bore or waste anyone\u2019s time. Photos I share are pretty but there\u2019s many I don\u2019t simply because they\u2019re my memories but not particularly beautiful or even interesting to anyone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

S: Do you have an outlet for your writing, or is this something that you aren\u2019t actively pursuing in a regular cadence?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

GM: I don\u2019t write creatively or for pleasure much anymore. Most of my writing today is technical and for my profession. I wrote a few poems in recent years but none I plan to share any time soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thank you so much for these thoughtful answers, Grant!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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