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I need a blog like I need a hole in the head. As long as that hole is a mouth we will be ok. Sure my blog may not be oxygen or food but it is still important to my well being and therefore important.
I want to write. I need to write. My whole website is taking far too much time… as a hobby, but just enough as a business. And a business is what I am running. This discipline of writing every day is starting to take hold and become a habit. The online friends that I am making are resources that give me support and inspiration. Most people here in Blogistan will give that support freely and quickly, as long as there is reciprocation somewhere along the line.
There is a list of people that I now think of as friends on this whole internet thing. I like to read what they have to say, I like to interact with them and I hope they like to read what I have to say and not just think I am an annoying little insect that can just be brushed aside. I will not be brushed aside! I will come over to your house and…. wait that was a dream.
I am finally starting to figure out my life and my blog. It is not finished, there are always little tweaks to the site or things to add or make more ascetically pleasing. There are new and exciting things to read and get involved in. There is lots of writing to be done. There are stories to format and tweak into e-books that will start making me money. There are newsletters to format even though there are no subscribers (sign up here or I will come over to your…:))
This post is short, there will be longer ones. Most of them lately have been longer. And longer fiction on Saturday. And e-books that are not just reprints of blog posts but actually thought out, well formatted pieces that people will actually read and not stick in an obscure downloads folder on their computer.
I need a blog like I need a hole in the head. A funny expression, but now it feels like I need my blog or there is a hole somewhere in the core of me.
Until Later Loyal Citizens of Blogistan,
Justin
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I don’t know if this is a phenomenon that everyone experiences but here is something that I have noticed. As my blog has gotten older, the amount of spam that I have been receiving in the comments has reduced a great deal. I don’t know if it is a function of my neglect of the blog lately or if it really has to do with something else.
I did go back to using Disqus for my comment system but even before that Akismet seemed a bit lonely. I don’ t know if this is a good sign or not. I am thinking while my blog has stagnated so have comments. I have been getting fairly decent traffic but not many comments over the past year. But for the spam to reduce?
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Hello all. You will notice that this post is somewhere close to 7 hours later than I usually post. It has been, as the title suggests, a long day. I am not just trying to complain. I could do that. But I won’t. I did however learn how to take apart my laptop and get the punch out of it. Presidents Day and the kids home from school do not necessarily make for the writing time bliss that I have allocated for a normal day.
Suffice it to say, I have post ideas now but no posts written. Yet another reason to join the Pre-Writing Challenge! We are beginning February 19th and will be going for a month in order to have 2 weeks worth of posts prewritten. See my page Here for more info. Would have come in handy for today as it would have on Friday!
So this brings me to today’s post. I have been debating the virtues of taking the weekend off. This weekend I scheduled some tweets to go out on Saturday for my fiction posts and then I didn’t get back on the computer for much of anything! It was kind of nice, not chaining myself to my laptop but I have hardly any traffic to show for it.
This may not be a bad thing. The good news is that I actually had traffic for 2 days with hardly any promotion. Not much traffic, mind you but some. That is the first step to becoming one of the big bloggers I think. Getting traffic without doing anything. Of course if I don’t do anything during the week my blog will fade and I will turn into nothing but a statistic; one of the failed bloggers.
I still am not going to post on Sunday. I am still going to post fiction on Saturday and put out e-books of said fiction when they are all out there. I will have some posts to post when I have issues with life. I was beginning to question whether it was worth posting or commenting on the weekends. It may be. I don’t think I will be doing anything different though.
If you are reading this Thank you! I will have more tomorrow at a more reasonable time. And it will be about hitting things.
Justin
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