Month: Feb 2021

No New Website, Just New Life to This One

And here’s where I’d mention a Squarespace sponsorship… if I HAD ONE!

Since the last post, I dabbled in trying to get a website going for a new tangential writing project. The intention was to make Vs. The Backlog its own thing rather than just building off this old WordPress blog, with avenues to expand into more than just me. Unfortunately, after screwing around with the tools on Squarespace and trying to get myself a crash course in web design, I ultimately ended up nowhere. There’s a few reasons, but what really sealed it was that there was never a point I could say “This isn’t something I could just do on the old blog.”

Actually tweaking this WordPress after the fact solidified that feeling further. Multiple times I would have to really fight the tools needed to get something to look or feel just right, but here it’s been effortless and intuitive. So why bother compounding stress by adding hassles to the design and writing process? This blog will do for my purposes for now. All I really want at the moment is a platform to write on that people can read, and the rest will unfold from that.

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Well, Here We Are Again

Been a while since I dusted off Delfeir vs the Backlog, but this blog is as good a place as any for the time being.

Most people reading this will probably know that I’ve been writing exclusively for the website DualShockers for a bit over a year. I mentioned as much in the Yakuza-flavoured epic that was the previous post here, but that’s at the bottom of 10k words so I don’t begrudge anyone for missing that detail. Originally I had considered adding posts here alongside it, but there wasn’t really anything I intended to write that wouldn’t also work over at DualShockers. So I let this place lapse.

But now I’m back here, so the astute among you should easily put the pieces together: I’m no longer writing for DualShockers. I handed my resignation in on Friday, effective immediately. The full explanation for why could take a while, so I’ll just keep it brief. DualShockers was purchased by a media company, and despite assurances of a relatively hands off trial period while we all get acclimatised, it only took four days before our entire process had been gutted.

Any article that wasn’t chasing trends and analytics while aimed at big views was to be scrapped. Long-form content like reviews and editorials — y’know, the thing I do pretty much exclusively — was dramatically reduced if not outright axed. The writing was on the wall, and I no longer had a place there, so I bowed out. Still, best of luck and all the best to the many writers there who are staying on. I bear none of them any ill will, you guys are great and I enjoyed writing alongside you.

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