Comments on: Blogging for love or money

By: pia

pia — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:17:36 +0000

Thanks Sage. I love to write and love to be read. I have been thinking of writing when I feel like and closing comments. I guess it’s all the groups that get to me. I lost a lot of my readers due to my own need to do other things and it seems most found other blogs or groups. One group gives a writing assignment each week. If I want to do that, I want to be paid.

It’s frustrating as I began so “big” and dared to dream. I still dream but realize that blogging can only help me when I have a product to push or absolutely don’t care about being published and am just writing like you are–for the love of it

By: Sage

Sage — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:33:27 +0000

I’ve been so busy I didn’t realize i missed this–Blogging ain’t about money. I put ads on my blog last January, thinking that I’d give my $ to local ministry that provides food for the poor–I’m still waiting for the check and when it comes, I’ll have made them $11 and some odd cents in a year of blogging–but again I don’t do it for the money. I do it to force myself to write and it’s nice to be read. We’ll be here when you come back and the next time I’m flying and stop at an airport bookstore to thumb through the magazines, I hope to see your name (I’ll be sure to buy the magazine!).

By: pia

pia — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:39:44 +0000

Hi Jonathan
I will always visit your blog. Your girls (all four including Wendy) have me hooked as does your pondering

I have no intention of giving up writing. I’m just too frustrated by what blogging’s become to continue blogging.

It’s one thing if you have a blog like power pop–on my blogroll–that’s a one subject blog by an established writer in his field. He can just write his posts, answer comments and have fun. But then there’s a truly great flash fiction writer who must participate in too many writing exercises to get feedback. And none of us really want “you’re so great.” We want feedback. I’ll take “you’re so great also, but I need more

For years blogging was a 24/7 venture for me and I made not a cent from it. I thought if you commented on personal blogs you got at least one comment back. I thought that was common decency and manners. But I realize many bloggers weren’t brought up to care about other people though they make big deals about their problems. Yes I did about mine but I hope I gave back…

Oh let me shut up….

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:04:25 +0000

Well I for one will miss your writing – even if I didn’t always read. I’ve had a love/hate affair with blogging for the last year too.

I would like to think your words will escape onto some platform somewhere in the future, but of course that’s your decision to take.

The idiotic marketing and analytical pissing competition that goes on at the moment with anything and everything on the internet is eroding the reason people took part in the beginning; real community with real people. In the end the money makers will fail, and the real people – people like you and I – will remain once more, and others will come.

I’m starting to preach, so I’ll shut up.

By: pia

pia — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:24:37 +0000

Yeah Bone I rue BE because we met. I do!!!!!

Honestly you have become very important to my life and as long as you remain funny, you will have a place in my life.

You know I have very high humor standards so you have to remain very very funny and maybe even become funnier

By: Bone

Bone — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:05:14 +0000

Blog when you want. People are always gonna read because you have such a unique way with words.

You know I will support anything you do, short of not finding me funny. I can’t support that. I have to draw the line somewhere.

Also, had it not been for BE, I would not have found you. Which may help explain your rueing thereof

By: pia

pia — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:27:15 +0000

oh god Cooper the directions on how to live your life as brought to you by a 27 year old who just last year was in a zillion dollar debt, had kids without thinking and so on and so on. And it’s not PC to say “maybe you’re not the most brilliant or greatest role model” but to hang onto every word as if they’re Suze Orman–who I have problems with also

Thank you Cooper for being one of the shining lights. I will always read you because I’m addicted to your posts. They’re so wonderfully eclectic and you never care what people think. I probably should devote my life to being your PR agent or disciple but you want neither and that’s a bit of what makes you so great

Sorry for embarrassing you. I promised somebody I would With good words

By: cooper

cooper — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:05:00 +0000

I agree, though I’m probably one of the few my age. I think because I was blogging before most people my age and there is nothing new really just exaggerated more of the same old same old. I am just of the blog for fun and enjoy reading mode. Though remember in the meantime some people have made “blogging” their life. Not writing mind you just blogging or at least giving directions how to. lol

By: pia

pia — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:36:39 +0000

Thanks Doug. I will. I or that alphawoman really redid the blog so it would look good while I didn’t add posts. Though I’m in love with the reply function and uh might have to post but very limited and no commenting on word exercises, no blogging for large blogs etc. It’s too exhausting for me

This book is too important to me. Way too important

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:30:28 +0000

Right, right. Write your books. I enjoy your posts but I’m eager to buy your book. Let this be the break from that and if someone tells you you need to increase your blogging statistics, stab them in the belly and carve out their lungs.