If I were a better blogger I would be going to Blogher which is taking place in New York in August (not on my birthday weekends) so I truly have no excuse not to go other than fear of not being known, and a general hatred of large gatherings in which I don’t have a central role. (Hey at least I’m honest.)
If I were a better blogger I would have a reader and comment on at least 100 blogs a week.
If I were a better blogger I would have a brand that I was known for so people wouldn’t be confused when they read my blog about what I write about–anything and everything.
And if I were a better blogger my blog could easily translate into one book; not 20 on vastly different subjects.
If I were a better blogger I would have a kid or three so I could write cute knowing stories and be offered products to place other than horrible books that I’m expected to write glowing reviews of–I don’t.
If I were a better blogger I would focus on making as many Facebook and Twitter friends as possible rather than just having fun on Facebook.
If I were a better blogger I would be 20 years younger than I am or face being “old” and write for Eons (I’m not into nostalgia in the traditional sense so this doesn’t work.)
If I were a better blogger I would know HTML well and figure out what’s wrong with my blog so that it shows on readers and Networked blogs. (Honestly because of my disability I don’t even try.)
If I were a better blogger I would use my disability for fame and fortune. Though when you have NLD it’s easy to be bright and verbal and almost impossible to figure out a game plan.
If I were a better blogger I would have a game plan despite my inability to figure one out.
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When I began blogging six years ago this month nobody I knew had heard of blogs. They patronized me for caring. Then my blog became read and got publicity. Only I found my life blog-centric which wasn’t helping me get published or make money. Now that blogs are the way to godliness and a better more wonderful life I have about as much desire to keep my blog up as I have to become Mother Teresa.
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I keep my blog as I still believe I’m talented. I might be lacking in self-esteem but I know how to tell a story. I don’t feel comfortable in this world of shameless self promotion (not that it’s called that anymore) but I’m not sure I feel totally comfortable in the world at large.
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The only thing that I’m bitter about is not knowing I had NLD at least ten years ago. I could have planned my life better while I was still comparatively young. Blogging would have come after writing, not before it.
However I didn’t. Now that I have my house and life somewhat together I can finish what I began so long ago. I always begin years in September–will always be on a school year calender even if most begin in August now.
This is my year and welcome to it.
For the months of August and September I’m putting in old posts. If you have any favorites….Might do this through the end of the real year. That way I can clean my blog and focus on things more important to me while letting people see what I have done
If I were a better blogger… I’d try to pick up new readers when I lost old ones.
Happy bloggiversary! I like that you are celebrating an entire month (or two). I’m not sure what you get for the 6th bloggiversary. We should make up a list.
I remember when I first came across you, I would have bet anything you’d been blogging longer than me.
Actually, now that I think about it, as I try and block out my first EIGHTEEN months, in a way you had been 🙂
@Bone
Yes to that first line
Honestly I’m putting in old posts to get new readers. Need a battle plan. Oh right. Can only be an accidental success. we’ll change that 🙂
Those CAPS weren’t random enough, Bone 😉
Pia, if you were a “better” blogger by those definitions, you’d just be boring to the rest of us.
My blog is dying and yet I fight making the switch to WordPress daily. I know that going public again is the only way to keep it alive, and yet, I just coast along, wondering how long life support holds out for a blog.
(Hopefully at least until my 4th blogiversary.)
@TC
TC==you and Bone are the two best tellers of family stories I know. I wanted to mention you somewhere and then remembered your blog is private which was a problem 🙂
And you’re both childless. Yet tell such wonderful stories about parents and kids. Ha, take that mommy bloggers who can’t write half as good!!!!!
I now that whole better blogger thing is annoying isn’t it. Though I imagine someone makes a living of it. lol
@cooper
Cooper it took me years to get that. I could have been making a living doing what I love. Not really sure what ideals I was holding out for
So welcome to two months of Courting Classics except when exciting things happen like I defy death twice in one day (really)
And in October there might be big changes or not!
But I promise more enthused writing. I’m brain dead right now. Running on empty and need to refresh!
Blogging is the hallway through a house of mirrors. If you were an ultimate blogger, you’d walk down the street talking to yourself with a microchip in your nose recording your sayings.
My favorite Courting Classics are the story of your dad on MTV and how you met John Gotti.
Gee, reading your list I gett he feel that I’m a failure as a blog… I don’t talk about my blog at large group meetings in which I attend, I have a cute child but I don’t say much about her or the rest of the family, instead of a brand, I too blog all over the place and actually get bored when I write about the same thing too long. And I keep facebook and blogger as far apart as possible!
@Doug
Thanks Doug I will put them in. I forgot John Gotti!!!!!!
Sage–that’s what keeps you interesting. I guess I began by believing the hype about me and you should never believe hype unless you’re prepared to act on it or it’s not about you 🙂
Also, my BlogHim idea never caught on at all.
@Bone
But Bone you began 3WW and more!