Simple, no?
You need not be brilliant or witty, accomplished or pretty - you just have to pay your dues. The dues of blogging are as follows: *ahem*
1. Post about something, anything, that any blogger can mildly relate to. This is not the hard part but it should be.
2. Visit other blogs, read their posts and leave comments.
3. Answer your own comments either by email or by visiting that person’s blog.
Looks like pie, right?
A year ago, I was on fire. I was a blogger that could not be stopped. I was happily climbing the blogging ladder of popularity and taking no prisoners (trolls). I was also very lucky to have made many good friends along the way.
Looking back, I’m not sure how I did it and everything else that life requires of us. Blogging was fulfilling to me in such a way that I was constantly inspired to write, visit and comment. I lived to blog and I was not at all ashamed to admit it.
During my surfing, I’d come across various bloggers that had been around much longer than I. My brow would crinkle (which is cute- you should see it) and I would wonder,
“Why don’t they post every day?”
“Why don’t they visit me back when I leave them a comment?”
“Don’t they know that if they would just post and comment more, they would end up with more traffic?”
“DON’T THEY KNOW?????”
They knew.
Back then, I felt awful if I thought I had offended another blogger with a comment or a post. I would actually sit and worry about it - like more than my bills or my diet or the countless other things that were piling up on my To Do List as I sat in front of the computer yet again that day.
It would blow my mind when bloggers that I knew and enjoyed toyed with the idea of giving up their blog. I was devastated when a few actually did. I thought,
“Are they nuts?”
“Don’t they know?”
They knew.
Now I know too. I post sporadically, comment when I can and look at my stats very sparingly. Did I mention that I used to be a stataholic? Oh yes.
I’ll tell you what I know. Life comes first - not the blog post about it. Maybe you already knew that preciuos tidbit? Probably so. I’ll admit that I’m a hooker someone who gets hooked on things quickly and urgently - which is why I never experimented much with drugs. I’ll also admit that there are days, like lately, when the decrease in comments gets me down. It does. There are days when I think,
“How come I don’t win any blog awards?” (insert pathetic baby whine here)
“Why am I all of a sudden Miss Un-Popular?”
And then I get over it. Real life is more important than blog life - no matter how fufilling my social cyberlife is and has been. They knew that and I (pretty much) know that. Do you?
