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Damyanti Biwas has written about her 8th year at blogging.
She has almost 30,000 friends now, most posts average dozens of comments.
It was her 689th post.
She is a super star in blogdom.
Survivor Duck -- my mascot from Katrina
I started in February of 2010. And this is my 2,470th post.
I may not have as many friends or followers as she -- but each of you are family. :-)
It got me to wondering:
1.) Why did you first start blogging?
2.) How long ago was it?
3.) Did you accomplish what you set out to do or did your goals change?
4.) How do you come up with post topics?
5.) Has the Blogging World changed since you started?
6.) How many of the people who started out blogging at the same time as you are still blogging?
7.) How long do you envision continuing to blog?
Just wondering.
Thank each and every one of you
for continuing to visit my cyber-home
and listen to this weary rare blood courier.
HAPPY 2016 EVERYONE!
Since I've suspended my blog, I'm can't call myself an expert on blogging. I admire people who can keep going at it (like you, Roland), but I'm kinda burnt out on it and now just enjoy visiting blogs of my cyber friends. Meanwhile, I'm getting more novel writing done, which is what matters, right?
ReplyDeleteI hate that you've suspended your blog, but you must follow your own path. And you are right: writing your novels is the most important. Yet, I think that keeping a cyber-presence with a blog helps when our novels come out. May 2016 treat you great!!
DeleteMy blog was to create that writer's platform you hear about. I did not realize that I had plenty of time. Write the stories first.
ReplyDeleteThe blog has taught me what people like to read, to write better. I cringe at some old posts. Surprisingly, I have developed opinions and friends.
Whether, I write anything is irrelevant now. I work on my stories in my spare time.
You and I are about the same in most everything. Good to meet a kindred spirit. :-)
Delete30,000 blows my mind.
ReplyDeleteI started in 2009 and only a handful of blogs that were around at that time are still here. Les, Elizabeth, Diane, Yvonne - they are about the only ones who still blog.
30,000 is quite an amazing number!
DeleteI started a year after you, and so few of us veterans still remain. We're the stubborn ones I guess! :-)
I started blogging almost 11 years ago. It has changed so much, it's incredible. I've taken breaks but always come back. I think I'm closing in on 2000 posts now.
ReplyDeleteI post every day so that is why I acquired so many posts. 11 years? That is quite an achievement. My Stetson's off to you.
DeleteI started in 2011 for the usual reason (to build a writer's platform, but with no books out yet) but hadn't expected to make so many great friends. I think things are changing and people are going down other routes but blogging has a unique camaraderie. I'll keep going as long as it's feasible.
ReplyDeleteLike you, I like the camaraderie, and to quit now would put to naught all the hard work I've done! Ouch!
DeleteI started in 2009 because my daughter and sister said that I would enjoy talking with other writers. I said no for 2 years then I did and glad I did.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you did, too, Teresa! :-)
DeleteWow, that's a blogger for sure. I guess I do it because it's fun...is there any better reason? :)
ReplyDeleteYes, Damyanti is the Super-Blogger all right!! And no, there is no better reason to do than to have fun! :-)
DeleteHi, Roland,
ReplyDeleteCongrats to Damyanti and YOU, TOO! I seriously don't know how you write so much and post so much, especially with your work schedule. It's impressive for sure.
Happy New Year, my friend. I hope you enjoyed the holidays!
Mine were, well, INSANE. Posted about it for the IWSG... My first post this year and in over a month. UGh.
LOVE your blogging questions. I started a bit after you, five years now. Sadly, only a few of my close blogger friends are still blogging. Life surely gets in the way. I remember when I first started, I posted every day. Kept it up for over a year. Then I slowed and now I post erratically once or twice a month if I can.
Time seems to be running from me at greater speeds and now matter what kind of shape I am in, I can't keep up. LOL.
I wish you all the best this year with many, many HAPPY surprises....
At least you are keeping Time in shape from making it run away from you. Life does have a way of insisting you take time for what it wants!
DeleteYou have had more than your share of problems from that bike accident, turn abouts in your dreams of places to live, and now re-doing your loft -- and then there is Hamlet, feisty pup that he is. I have the young kitten, Midnight, who keeps trying to unravel my sanity!
May we both have many happy surprises ahead in this New Year.
I started back in 2009, but dwindled off in 2012 after we lost our boy. I've had a hard time regaining my steam, but I do miss blogging. It's so much more in-depth and personal that FB, which is where I spend my one or two socialized minutes every few days. I just haven't felt social or involved for a long time, but I do miss it. I've made some wonderful friends on here, and while I mostly lurk these days, I do miss blogging my own topics and being part of the online society.
ReplyDeleteI only have 237 posts. Not so many as Ro-Ro!
Anyway, blogging has changed, as all social media does. It's a lava lamp of technology -- give it a blink, and it's exactly the same, only different. I still love the versatility and intelligence of blogging, and mentioned to my wife the other day that I may go back to it. FB is so... well, it's like reading a magazine, a really, really bad magazine. And I'm a novelist, not a magazinist, and I prefer lengthier, more well-thought posts than a simple diatribe about Obama's gun speech, or Trump's hair. Those are fun, sure, and I enjoy some of it, but it's overwhelming.
Anyway. You're a rock, along with Diane and some others, who keep me grounded in blogging, and may at some point with your hefty weighted words drag me back into the deep dark dirty waters of bloggerdom...
Because you're sort of evil that way, my friend. Eeeeeevil (insert pinky into lower lip).
- Eric
Losing your son was a terrible blow. Of course, it de-railed you for a time. We heal, but we always remember.
DeleteFB is more a cyber-scrap book. And I am a private person. I do not want to share with the impersonal world, only with friends who look me up on my block of the cyber city.
I've seen so many changes in blogging, but the core stays the same I think: like minds reaching out to each other.
I'm not Dr. Evil -- Dr. Stubborn! Have an unusually great New Year!
Hi Roland - interesting to read everyone's comments and views ... my 8th year is up on Wednesday - so post is a-coming.
ReplyDeleteI started as I wanted to know more about the internet ... I blog what I want - I didn't want to be restricted, though I try and post relative to readers' interests.
The advantages ... friends - who are amazing; learning so much about all sorts of things - illness, the net, how to write, how to publish etc etc ...
The amazing run of the A-Z has established many of us - stretching our blogging muscles further than we might have thought possible.
It's a fun world - and I'll link back to this come Wednesday - I expect I'll remember!!! Cheers Hilary
Also if you ask for help as I've just done of an engineer - I get an answer! Now my bridge staples are clarified as to their necessity! Bridge from medieval days!! Cheers H
Delete8th year?! Wow. Yes, making and keeping friends is one of the best things about consistently doing a blog. How neat that you got help from an engineer! Cheers to you, too, Roland
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