As I'd said in my opening post for the new year, I'd like to discuss what I'll need to do for this blog in order to make an improvement, also the same as prior years as indicated below. A lot of the points presented in them still apply, but for this year in particular, I want to discuss what it may take for me to "get things together", something that has presented a challenge over much of the past year and perhaps even up to this point in time. After considering what has happened then and now, I've determined that in order to "get things together", I'd need to do two things, as indicated by this post's title, which are to "simplify" and "amplify".
For the "simplify" portion, it might seem that more than a few of my posts have gotten quite "convoluted" in their structure, even if this could be considered a natural consequence of being able to write more in comparison to my early blogging days. Thus, the effort is to try to remove "convolution" wherever possible and to make it easy for me to write about Pokémon things while still necessarily going as deep as possible and necessary into them. This would in turn make it easy to deal with this blog amidst all other (Pokémon) things in my life.
Then there's the "amplify" portion. That would involve ways of making my posts having that necessary depth as above while making the limited resources I have - mostly words, but at times images might also be pertinent - say or express as much as possible. It might be considered an avenue of creativity that is somewhat needed for this blog after so many years. Given that Pokémon itself has been (and recently gotten) rather creative and so have a good segment of its fans, it seems natural that I'd have to follow suit for this blog somehow.
Even with these two aims together, it might still be necessary to let one of them take a slight dominance over the other to still allow myself to express what I need to express and to show what Pokémon things absolutely needs to be shown. That also means it might be partially dependent on what those Pokémon things actually are and how they could stand to be featured on this blog in both of the ways stated above - again, words and/or images.
Realizing these two aims might be either a hand-in-hand matter or a separate-but-together effort, much like how certain Pokémon games are played and including ones that are very much pertinent to me right now and in the foreseeable time ahead. At least some of that is definitely a natural fodder for being featured on this blog, and after nine full years and going into the tenth, making things simple while also amplified seems to be the imperative.
One year ago: New Directions, Same Directions
Two years ago: Blog Changes: Made and Not Made
Three years ago: More Blog Overhauls?
Four years ago: Thoughts on More Categories
Five years ago: Pokémon Blogging Wellness
Six years ago: New Post Categories
Seven years ago: Taking the Plunge
Eight years ago: What's Next?
Nine years ago: ...And a Hoppip New Year
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