The Why

Reading. Is. My. Jam.

I write, because I love to read. I look for the story in everything around me just like the 4 year old version of me with one difference. Now, I look for quality in the content – the stuff with the most meat on the bone.

I built mikewriting.com to tell stories to my friends and family. Instead of having my stories buried in news feeds, I made an online platform for the kind of writing I like to read.

For the editors of my favorite publications, this is a collection of samples of my work – on full display and presented as intended.

Why Audio Versions?

Because I create the kind of content I want to consume, I’ve become obsessed with an idea of audio blogging. I follow multiple long form bloggers, and it would be so freakin cool if I could read their posts with my hands free.

I want narrated blogs to be THE THING. This audio content could trend like skinny jeans. We are movers these days. We want our information, but we want to stay moving.

Ted Talks was the original inspiration for narrating posts. I noticed how accessible their video content is. There are so many talks that have subtitles and transcripts available 20 or more languages. And if you’re watching on the mobile app, you can choose an audio only option. With those options, your content is available to visually-impaired, hearing-impaired, and non-english speakers. In short, I was like ‘Hey, I want that too!’

We Are Movers

Feels like there’s an extra layer of authenticity to a story when you hear it in the author’s voice. It connects you with the emotions, the passion. You’re given an awareness of the writer’s state-of-mind that could be missing in the text only.

I want this to be the right now (not the future) of written content, so I’m all the way in.


Where In Social Media

What I Use to Run the Site

With three computers, one Windows Vista laptop (laugh; it’s cool) and two Macs, I have enough toys. Artwork I do in Adobe Illustrator CC and Photoshop CC (like 95% Illustrator). Adobe Audition CC is my audio recording and editing software for blog narrations. For code-editing, I use Dreamweaver CC. Safe to say I get my money’s worth from my Creative Cloud membership

I’m learning to build AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) WordPress themes from scratch – mobile-first, stupid fast websites.

Some other tools and resources I use are below:

w3schools.com link

Wordpress.org

Aweber Referral Link

The Bluehost and AWeber banners have my affiliate links, so if you sign up, I receive a commission. Ask me questions about any of this stuff or the plug-ins I use in WordPress. I’ve done some heavy duty shopping around to decide on these. If you’ve had good experience with other resources, please share. Something I would have liked to find out before I bought my domain name from Google Domains is that Bluehost gives you a domain name free when you sign up with them. It’s like free money!


Here’s a domain name checker if you’re looking to setup a site. I snatched the domain mkwr.co too, so I could create branded short links for mikewriting.com (because I’m extra).

Thanks for visiting. Enjoy the site.