Saturday, August 13, 2011
Again, Why Blog?
That may or may not be true. Your mom, brothers, sisters and maybe 20 other relatives can pack your gallery. It does, however, take a great deal of work to maintain readership even among those loyal to you because they had no choice in having you for a blood relation. So why blog at all?
This was originally a personal blog. Surprisingly, I once found a small audience for it outside of my family, a handful of individuals in varying shades of jadedness, with the same level of acidic insanity. I lost a lot of my readers when life got in the way. The realization dawned that money, not words, feed babies. For many online wordsmiths, money is hard to come by.
I don’t think I’ll ever really quit though. I like it here because I don’t have to struggle and give up who I am to survive. I don’t have to pretend to be anything and there is certainly no requirement to save the world.
Call me selfish. When every other blogger wants to make a difference, I want to keep this small space for my personal mental therapy. Anyone looking for a case subject for a psychology study is welcome to dive into this spontaneous morass from a self-confessed nut case.
Incidentally, during my bouts of lucidity, I do try to save the world too in other virtual spaces not in danger of getting tainted by my cerebral drippings.
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Maybe you should think of them as the drafts to your memoirs, ma'am. Maybe one day you could write a book too. :) I'll offer a blurb now if you like
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Ahaha... :D
ReplyDeleteJust so you know, this was an assignment from well... Hehe
i can relate.:)
ReplyDeleteI have family that have personal blogs and after a few months of being nice and reading them they just become boring.
ReplyDeleteI started a few personal blogs myself but focused them around my hobbies. My fishing blog gets few family members today but I do get traffic that makes me money. I also have made a few new fishing buddies which is always cool.
Hi James. Thanks for dropping by. I think your idea is the ideal path to follow. Focusing on a niche offers a lot of potential when it comes to traffic and profit and the best part is that you're enjoying because you love what you blog about :)
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