My Vast Project

Well guys, I bought a domain name to start a fancy blog.

Now you may remember that I have once before tried and failed to start a different blog and don't worry, I remember that too. But that was right before what turned out to be a very trying, blog-writing-unfriendly time for me (I mean, heck, I equaled my whole total of 2008 blog posts by May of this year).

Things are different now. For one thing, I have finished writing my masters thesis. (I will probably need to make some revisions after the professors on my committee finish reading it, but revising is not writing.) And that one thing is a HUGE thing. Secondly, this new blog will be better than that other blog. This one is more specific and cooler.

It's MonarchMoments.net.

I hope you guys like this idea. I'm not entirely sure it's a good one, but once it occurred to me I just couldn't get rid of it, so I think I need to give it a shot. If I sound unwontedly nervous and fretful for just a dumb ol' blog, well . . . I'm afraid everyone will laugh at me the way everyone did at Homer when he told them his dream was to own the Dallas Cowboys. (Except for Mr. Scorpio.)

You see, some people have these cool, famous blogs. Like The Pioneer Woman, or that lady from Cake Wrecks. And I know that barely anybody is that successful at running a blog and getting people to read it (and that I'm not as funny as either of those women), but I feel like if there's anything I do here that would have a shot as getting a little fraction of that success, it's the monarch moments.

So anyway, if you think this is a bad idea, don't tell me. (For one thing, I already paid ten American dollars for my fancy dot net.) However, if you have suggestions for things I could do or ways I could spread the word about the blog, I would love to hear them.

My plan right now is to update three times a week. At first, Fridays will be where I put repeats of the moments I've written for this blog. Mondays will feature new moments--I'm going to start with an as-yet-undetermined number of pre-Conquest kings, but probably pick up in the chronology where I left off here after not too long. (That is, the .net Edward III moment will run long before Edward II shows up there on a Friday.) Wednesday will be a catch-all day, with monarchs from different countries or entries that don't fit the "moment" template. Neal had a really good idea that I could do pop culture monarch moments where I review a movie (or something) about a king or queen and then compare it to the history. (I might put some of those on Mondays, though, because then it would be "Movie Monday" and alliteration is fun.)

Now I'm pretty tired and worried that I'm sliding into incoherency, so I'll stop typing.