This website is dormant for the last few years, as I didn’t know what to do with it. My Instagram account was hacked and that sort of killed my need to want to post not just there but in general. I just didn’t have a direction and have been lost for so long that I largely just kept to myself. I can’t keep doing that, I gotta figure out what this website is for from now on.
I think of my website as the home of anything I’ve written prior to my travels, since many of those websites have long disappeared, whatever I wrote on them vanished when they did. I extracted anything I wrote and brought it over here and that’s where most of the content I wrote remains. What is a blog but a journal, where you can put your thoughts online even if its just for yourself. I don’t think anyone comes here unless is a spammer or something but that’s OK. I am writing this for myself, its my little parking spot that is under my control for good or ill. Where I can create an email and use it for whatever or where I can just put out my thoughts into the digital void.
It needs to become more than that, without forgetting what it has been even as clickeric.com evolves to be something more. I think this website would be more likely to dissuade anyone from considering me if I apply for work but since it’s been a while since I had to worry about that, it hasn’t been an issue.
On WIX which is a website builder, they have a checklist that I saw while I was figuring out what to write for this post. I didn’t do most of what’s on the list since I wasn’t thinking about my brand or my mission. This website was simply my little space online, even if it doesn’t mean anything to anyone but me. That’s OK, what that means is I didn’t have to worry about it being perfect and I don’t think I want to go back and try and proof every line because that would take so long for a single person to do.
A friend of mine asked me what’s my brand? I don’t know to be honest its not something that I have ever thought about too deeply. Not because I wouldn’t like to have that chance but what do I offer that is unique. I’ve been so focused on my travels prior to the pandemic and then the sci-fi world that everything else has come to feel small.
The world is harsher, more dangerous and populist in a way where the powers that be are picking on groups of people just because they can’t protect themselves. Religion has become a driving force of politics in many nations and in ways that feel like they want to other those that don’t believe in their vision of the future. When are its these groups using their power just to gather more of it in the name of their beliefs even if it means punishing entire groups of people for what?
My site isn’t meant to focus on that but if we turn a blind eye to those who seek power, we will one day wake up and be under lock and eye, forced to hide and or submit to their rule. I just want to write stories to find the one story in my sci-fi world that only I can tell. How do I take my sci-fi world and ground it in such a way that makes it unique and not feel just completely derivative of every other story out there.
If I were to explain my scifi world it called “Into the Rift” or that’s the original title of the master document that carries all the rules, history, science, and places within the world. I built this world starting in Bangalore, India in the holiday season of 2013. Since then, it has continued to grow but not a story, a world and I have too much world now. I need to flip the script and tell a story, any fucken story within it. Even if it sucks, even if it shows my ineptitude as a writer because I can’t fear my lack of ability and just try and see what happens, so I know either way.
My mate Arcangelo is passionate about muay thai and when I was developing my world, I said I’d make him a bad guy in some way and form so I gotta do that. He is an awesome trainer, passionate about the sport, a bit rough around the edges but will push his trainees to their limit. He has his training style which might not work for everyone, but his skill and passion are second to none. I think the best trainers are those that are constantly learning and he is constantly trying to improve his own skills.
Getting back to this website should I use it for stories, or thoughts on stories or should it be a general blog where I can throw any post down, if it’s tagged and SEO’ed well would that make sense. Should I have it completely focused on one thing. I am focused on the latter because I want this to reflect me as a person not me as a brand. That just isn’t where I am right now, and I don’t think its who I want to represent in this next evolution of whatever this website becomes from this point on.
Those are just my thoughts on the here and now, I think I will just blog and write shorts for now that will go here as their main base and see what happens. This can always change but at least it is a direction to start walking towards, that is way better than being stuck in the same place. I cannot do that any longer and I must start running towards whatever that future will become. Here’s to the unknown story I have yet to tell but it will be fun to figure out even if it will be brutal to write.