Who writes the blogs?

That'd be me — Joanna Nelius-Free.

Between 2018 to 2025, I wrote for for PC Gamer, MaximumPC, Gizmodo, USA Today, Reviewed, The Verge, and Laptop Mag. Seeing my tech journalism career punctuated with an official end date feels I'm writing an obituary instead of a bio, but death isn't always literal.

Most often it's the end of a journey, a chapter, a whole-ass book — a transition peroid to a new beginning. I've pulled the death card many times throughout my life, and the transition period that followed reset me at the same place: creative writing.

But this time is different. This time it's just me and the page. No newsroom. No workshops. No conventions. No MFA program. Nothing to hold my hand. Nothing but intrinsic motivation to reconnect with the creative writer I was before my career as a tech journalist and finally see what my professors saw in myself.