General: Problems with my blog

As my regular readers have noticed, my blog has been slowing down in recent months. In the past I wrote more than 40 reviews a month, but now it's dropped to less than 20. This isn't due to any lack of interest in blogging or films in general; there are just too many distractions in my personal life. When I sit down to write a post, I'm interrupted every 10 minutes. This doesn't just disrupt my blogging, it makes it impossible for me to watch films at home. I can watch films in the cinema (with my phone turned off), but even that is difficult at times. Last week I had to cancel two cinema visits at the last minute.

I don't want to give the reasons in public, but if any of my friends want to know what's happening, give me your email address and I'll write to you. I never publish comments containing sensitive information, so if you write a comment with your email address I'll be the only one who sees it.

It doesn't look like the situation will improve any time soon, so I need to take steps. There are several alternatives that I'm mulling over:

1. I can close this blog. I've had a good run for the last 15 years, now it's enough.

2. I can keep the blog, but reduce my posts to mini-reviews, such as "Lost Highway" a few days ago.

3. I can change the purpose of the blog, making posts that aren't time-consuming, such as displaying my latest AI art.

4. I can start a new blog with a new style. There are practical reasons for this. My Google account is slowly running out of space for uploading photos. If I create a new Google account I'll have no problems for the next 20 years.

Of these four alternatives, the first is unthinkable. It's something I'd only do if I found myself totally unable to write. Blogging has been such a large part of my life for the last 15 years that it would hurt me to do without it. It's already hurting me to have to reduce my blogging.

The other three alternatives aren't mutually exclusive.

Alternative number two would be acceptable as a temporary measure, in the hope that things will eventually change. I'm aware that it would be a disappointment to my regular readers. It would mean downgrading the quality of my blog.

Alternative number three is a serious possibility, maybe in connection with alternative two. Until now I've kept off-topic posts to a minimum, but they could take over my blog, temporarily at least.

The more I think about it, the more I like the fourth alternative. I already made an attempt at a second blog in 2017. It was intended to be an X-Rated blog for erotic short stories. It didn't get very far. Only eight posts from 2017 to 2022. Last year a British author gave me permission to repost his erotic stories from a now defunct website, but I need time to format the text files. My new blog shouldn't be X-Rated, whatever I do with it. I could use it as a blog for everything except films. I'm still not sure.

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