I launched folklore & literacy – the blog site -in November of 2014. The original idea was to stage an online portfolio of my writing. For five years this self-hosted site was a passion project in which I wrote pieces about literacy, and personal folklore inspired by books, writers, and art. The experience was fantastic and brought me into a community of talented and supportive bloggers, readers, and writers. I was the sole interviewer, researcher, writer, editor, and proofreader of the content on my site, and the “comments” section was highly engaged and always civil.
Concerns about having unprotected intellectual and creative production that only exists in the ethers of the internet have given me pause. Should I have my pieces officially copywritten before re-posting them to the web? Should I publish them as a book? What pieces deserve fuller development and refinement? What about the images I created to accompany specific posts?