excuse me while I just employ HYPNO-FROG....
*hypno frog* FORGET ALL REINCARNATIONS OF "UNKEMPTWOMEN" THAT LUCY HAS MASCARADED BEHIND FOR THE LAST FEW YEARS, THIS IS THE REINCARNATION THAT UNKEMPTWOMEN.COM WAS REGISTERED IN THE ETHER FOR, ALL THOSE YEARS AGO */end hypno frog*
On 7th December, I'm opening a brand new website. I'm telling you about it now so that I absolutely HAVE to finish it. This new website is a website full of big internetty WOMEN. They are quite UNKEMPT, mouthy, not-normal, and lovely. Every last one of them. Some of them you have already heard of. Some of them you haven't. Some of them will remain anonymous. All of them are writers, journalists, novelists, long term proven bloggers and/or artists.
You see, sometimes, I get an idea in my tiny mind and I want to blog about it, but that idea is a bit different from what I normally do - maybe it's me being SERIOUS, or maybe it's a recipe - sticking a recipe in the middle of my blog just wouldn't work. It would break the flow of idiocy... and that's what you come here for, isn't it? Sometimes, I just fancy being really REALLY disgusting. I did have a separate area for some comedy p0rn once, but it instantly got listed in p0rn listings along with my name. Since I published my recipe book for kids a couple of years ago, I do get some squidlets coming to my site. Obviously, squidlets and p0rn don't mix, so I had to shut down Harriet Hole and her Farm-Based Filth. I didn't do her often enough to justify her own website, but it would have been nice for her to have somewhere to do her business (I have a feeling she'll soon be back). I thought that MAYBE, other lady bloggesses and writers and things might feel the same. So, I asked. And they did.
Blogging itself has changed, too. So many of us just don't keep up the steady stream like we used to, much of the time because blogging has brought us real work to do....and as your posting rate goes down, so does your findability... findableness... er... visibility (living in forrin for too long does this to a girl's inglish).... some of us have given up blogging almost completely, but still get the occasional urge to put something somewhere and have it read. Just sticking it into a page floating about in space isn't going to have it read by anyone. Sticking it in a vibrant, buzzy, loud kind of website, populated by a disparate bunch of lunatics lovely set of ladies, however, will help it to be read. So THAT'S what I've turned Unkempt Women into.
You may wonder why it's just a WOMEN thing. Well, I keep hearing that the internet is chock full of men with hardly any women.... and that we're all housewives blogging in little support groups, saving each other from madness and suicide. This is utter HOGWASH, but the myth won't die, so I thought a loud concentration of the boobed sex will help to quash it.... and, anyway, "unkempt people" doesn't sound so good.
I'm not telling you who's contributing yet, because a. some will be anonymous, and b. the contributor list isn't complete yet... although we already number over twenty splendid lovelies, bursting with talented-bloggish-writery goodness.
So, there you are. http://unkemptwomen.com opens 7th December. Follow @unkemptwomen for reminders and teeth-kicking on twitter.
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