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12/24/2014 0 Comments

Have I failed my audience? Well, that's going to change. Please try to keep up

Blogging

Sometimes I fear that I may have failed those who follow this blog. When I began sometime in May, 2011, I posted just four times. However, I quickly warmed to the task and was posting two or more times each week. By the time the year was out, I began posting almost daily. As the frequency of my posts increased, so did my audience. It seems they were visiting more frequently just to keep up.

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I'll never forget the first time the blog was visited by more than one thousand readers in just one day, then two thousand. They didn't just stop at one thing. They went on to read two, three, four, or more, some as many as eight to ten postings in one day.

Then I burnt out.
I realized that I was spending so much time writing blog posts that there wasn't much left to write my next novel.

I backed off.

So did the followers.

Now the website traffic ebbs and flows in synchronization with my irregular posts.

Obviously, people remain interested in what I post and I feel that I should share something, anything daily to keep them sated.

Although I can't devote the time and energy to write something original each day it occurred to me that they might be interested in other things, things that interest me.

As a first step in this direction, I am going to refresh the videos on my home page every day. 

There are millions of videos available on the Internet. No one can possibly view them all. However, I receive links to many from family and friends every day and sort through them to find the best. Surely, there will be something for everyone in my selection. I have very eclectic interests.

Most will be literary, but some will not.

Enjoy.

And, please try to keep up...
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    More than 500 postings have accumulated since 2011. Some categories (listed below) are self explanatory, others require some explanation (see below):

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    • ​Blogging: Commentary on the art and science of maintaining a successful website/weblog​
    • Cuba: History of the island and its people gathered while writing my novel, Hatuey's Ghost
    • Good Reads: Book reviews and interviews with current authors
    • Infantry School: A journal of my experiences in Basic Combat Training, Advanced Infantry Training, and Infantry Officer Candidate School in preparation to going to war in Vietnam.
    • Oh-dark-thirty: Random thoughts that wake me up in the middle of the night​
    • Opinion: I am not a member of any organized (or disorganized) political party. My views tend to be libertarian. 
    • Sea Scouts: A journal of my experiences as man and boy with this branch of Boy Scouting (probably not what you'd expect)
    • ​Today's Chuckle: Comics and jokes "borrowed" from other sources with links and thanks to the owners of the originals
    • Vietnam: A journal of my experiences and observations of the Vietnam War while assigned to the 9th Infantry Division, 1967 to 1968
    • Writing: Personal observations on the craft of writing and the current condition of the publishing industry
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