JACK'S BLOG
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Oh-dark-thirtyA BLOG HAS an insatiable appetite for words, hundreds and thousands of them every day, every week. I know. I've fed mine for more than a year and a half now posting every day. I'm beginning to feel like the character, Seymour, in the musical The Little Shop of Horrors who is forced to feed a cannibalistic plant from outer space. My blog hasn't sucked me dry, not yet, but it's taken blood, sweat, and tears that I would rather have invested in a new book.
Yes, I've had some success as a blogger. About 1,500 people visit this one every day. That's more than came during the first months. However, it was never my intention to become a blogger. I created it to sell books. That's how you sell ebooks these days. Well, that's what everyone told me. Unfortunately, it doesn't, at least not mine. I have dreams of writing several books that I've avoided over the past year and a half while I have posted my blog stories from history, current events, and my imagination. I'm not saying that it hasn't been fun. It has. It's also been useful for developing my craft as a writer. Don't worry. My blog isn't going to disappear. Approximately eighty percent of the visitors to my blog every day are newcomers. Many find something that interests them and there is a repository of more than 400 postings for them to read while I work on my new stories. There will be new postings as well. They won't come every day. I'll try to post at least one each week, but I'm not promising anything. Hopefully, my novels will be “discovered” after I've written a couple or three more. If not, I'll just have to keep on telling my stories as long as the breath is within me, just for the love of doing it. Thus, this isn't goodbye. It's just a promise of better things to come.
5 Comments
1/13/2013 09:41:05 am
The beast is never full. The only way to escape it is to kill it, but you keep thinking that the next blog will be the one that opens the door to sales.
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Jack Durish
1/14/2013 02:02:47 pm
Thanks for the compliment. I am proud of the weblog and its success. To be honest, I'm feeling a little guilty slacking off on it. My announcement has caused traffic to fall precipitously, but it can't be helped. I can't write novels and blog every day. Maybe when I was younger, not now.
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1/15/2013 02:38:12 am
I've come to the same conclusion too, Jack. it's hard to balance the blog, the social media, all the fun of the fair and find time to write books. Looking forward to reading your next publications... Emma x
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1/26/2013 03:45:44 am
I hear what you're saying and can relate to it very well. I am still committed to continue adding to my blog content, but not as stressed as I once was about it. I try to keep things simple when I can and have fun with it.
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