Writers’ Bloc: embalming the dead

Just a note. In case anyone’s read­ing either this or that. If you ever vis­ited or con­trib­uted to Writers’ Bloc, the site for writ­ing about writ­ing for the sake of writ­ing about writ­ing in the form of writ­ing and then writ­ing some more about writ­ing, you may be vaguely inter­ested to know that at some point the next couple of days, the domain is due to expire and the site will dis­ap­pear forever into the dis­tant fuzzy­ness called Once Upon A Time On The Inter­net. Unusu­ally, for a sad van­ity domain-collecting geek such as myself, I have resolved not to con­tinue pay­ing for this one purely so that approx­im­ately ten people a day can arrive at it via obscure Google searches. I need the money so that I can afford to buy another domain next week (maybe).

Fear not, how­ever, because I have decided to pre­serve it in aspic, as if untouched except by the pure hands of vir­gins. For the fore­see­able future or until the inter­net implodes under the sheer weight of filth, kit­tens and filthy kit­tens (whichever comes sooner), the tomb of Writers’ Bloc will reside at writersblocnet.wordpress.com. Ima­gine it as a kind of white­washed head­stone. Thank you and goodnight.

Comments: 4

    Thank you for remind­ing me of the Writer’s Bloc just as I was think­ing I needed to know more about writ­ing. Pic­ture me, your filthy kit­ten, rolling about, paw­ing the air in delight.

    wrenna | 12.06.10, 01:37

    I really appre­ci­ate that Writer’s Bloc will still be online — even after its domain expires.

    Thank you.

    kris | 12.06.10, 04:01

    that was a nice place. damn you, ever shift­ing sands of time! *shakes fist*

    Ani Smith | 12.06.10, 16:02

    Wrenna — I hope you enjoy it. Just keep your paws clean and your tail out of any­thing suspicious-looking.

    kris — Glad you’re pleased. Thought it was a sens­ible move.

    Ani — It was, wasn’t it? But the inter­net is trans­it­ory. Gone in the blink of an elbow. Maybe I should set up another online lit­er­ary magazine.

    An Unreliable Witness | 12.06.10, 19:15

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