No, I'm not retiring from Blogging... I'm retiring THIS blog.
Believe it or not I’ve been ‘blogging’ since January 23, 2004. I started off at Rotten Tomatoes as a forum poster where I discussed films and eventually was one of the original posters in their VPL (Virtual Producer’s Lab) Forums. My very first movie review entry was of "Birthday Girl" with Nicole Kidman in my RT VINE JOURNAL.
A few days later I wrote my first Haiku: The Day and Night in the life of Glenn
And two years later here I am… My RT Journal is ranked 21st in the most active journals list with 85,733 views and 722 journal entries.
I don’t think I can retire that journal because I have a bunch of movie savvy online friends that visit that journal and comment on a daily basis.
But after years of keeping a more ‘personal’ journal at Blogger titled “The Hungry Hungry Screenwriter” because I wanted something more customizable, I am retiring the journal for something even more customizable and of course free. There are just too many Blogger.com blogs that look like mine. The templates available aren’t that creative and I don’t know how to write my own. So I’m using WordPress1.5 which is offered by the website hosting company that I use: Netfirms.com. Blogger.com is free, and very easy to use, and extremely user friendly for the new blogger, but Netfirms.com offers tons of special things like WordPress1.5 and Forums and even eCommerce. I’m paying for hosting already so I might as well get the most of my money and use all the different features. Plus, there are tons of great blog templates that I can choose from. The learning curve wasn’t that long and I’m beginning to figure out how to customize everything!
There you have it. Good bye Blogger Blog and hello WordPress1.5 Blog.
So here is the grand opening, or whatever you want to call it, of the my new online Blog!
Welcome to THE HUNGRY WRITER! Hope you enjoy!
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