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5/25/11
That is my question.
I don't have a plethora of knowledge to bestow upon the world. My humor doesn't cater to millions of people, but only a very narrow group of people. The only purpose that blogging has served me is getting me in the mindset to write. In the past I have tried using my blogging for therapeutic reasons. And that worked and served it's purpose. The problem there is, that even I found myself boring. That's a huge problem.
I keep hearing that a writer needs a platform in order to land a publishing deal. Ok, fine. I've increased my Facebook "friends" and my Twitter "followers". Blog followers has proven to be extremely elusive. Mainly because I don't really have anything interesting to say. I've got stories locked in my head just rattling their chains to be unleashed on the world. But I have an extremely hard time releasing them in this format. Mainly because I don't proofread my blog. I don't edit it in any way. It is exactly as the words form in my head. In other words it is all crap.
I think that if I were to continue to post my fiction here, I would be producing the opposite of followers. I would create a list of ignorers (oh yeah, I just made up a new word). Suck it Websters!
I don't see this format as a springboard to much of anything for me. I know it has worked for others, but frankly, I don't have the time to agonize over the words that make up this blog. If you have read this in the past, I sincerely apologize. I've ranted, I've raved and I've said pretty much a whole bunch of nothing since I started writing sporadically on this blog in October.
If you are still reading, then I have one question for you (unless you are my wife of course): Why? I've just rambled on over 300 words and said absolutely nothing.
I've been polishing the beginning of my Zombie Apocalypse novel to submit it to Publishers. I've toyed with the idea of blogging as if I were actually in the middle of the Zapocalypse. That wouldn't be unique on the web either. It's funny really. We all start out life thinking the world revolves around us and that we are unique and special. But the older we get the more we realize that it is really extremely difficult to be unique. Every great idea I've ever had, has been done already. I guess that is the danger of living on a planet with 6 billion or so people. How am I any different than any of them? Ok, maybe I am different from most of them. Say 99.99%. Here's where my accounting background comes into play. .01% of the human population is still a whopping 600,000 people. That means that any idea I may come up with, there are potentially 600k people who may have beaten me to that idea. I can narrow that down a bit too, though in an attempt to make myself feel important. Of those 600k people that are essentially like me let's say only 1% actually have the drive to act upon an idea. That's still 60k people. I can live with that. but I need to beat the other 59,999 bastards out there to something. Something that WILL set me apart from everyone else.
I know my wife is the only one still reading, but even that makes me feel good. If by some chance there is still anyone else reading, please drop me a line here, on Facebook or Twitter.
I think I may revist my last blog post after I walk the dog. Talk to you (or myself soon)
My Little Demon
That is my question.
I don't have a plethora of knowledge to bestow upon the world. My humor doesn't cater to millions of people, but only a very narrow group of people. The only purpose that blogging has served me is getting me in the mindset to write. In the past I have tried using my blogging for therapeutic reasons. And that worked and served it's purpose. The problem there is, that even I found myself boring. That's a huge problem.
I keep hearing that a writer needs a platform in order to land a publishing deal. Ok, fine. I've increased my Facebook "friends" and my Twitter "followers". Blog followers has proven to be extremely elusive. Mainly because I don't really have anything interesting to say. I've got stories locked in my head just rattling their chains to be unleashed on the world. But I have an extremely hard time releasing them in this format. Mainly because I don't proofread my blog. I don't edit it in any way. It is exactly as the words form in my head. In other words it is all crap.
I think that if I were to continue to post my fiction here, I would be producing the opposite of followers. I would create a list of ignorers (oh yeah, I just made up a new word). Suck it Websters!
I don't see this format as a springboard to much of anything for me. I know it has worked for others, but frankly, I don't have the time to agonize over the words that make up this blog. If you have read this in the past, I sincerely apologize. I've ranted, I've raved and I've said pretty much a whole bunch of nothing since I started writing sporadically on this blog in October.
If you are still reading, then I have one question for you (unless you are my wife of course): Why? I've just rambled on over 300 words and said absolutely nothing.
I've been polishing the beginning of my Zombie Apocalypse novel to submit it to Publishers. I've toyed with the idea of blogging as if I were actually in the middle of the Zapocalypse. That wouldn't be unique on the web either. It's funny really. We all start out life thinking the world revolves around us and that we are unique and special. But the older we get the more we realize that it is really extremely difficult to be unique. Every great idea I've ever had, has been done already. I guess that is the danger of living on a planet with 6 billion or so people. How am I any different than any of them? Ok, maybe I am different from most of them. Say 99.99%. Here's where my accounting background comes into play. .01% of the human population is still a whopping 600,000 people. That means that any idea I may come up with, there are potentially 600k people who may have beaten me to that idea. I can narrow that down a bit too, though in an attempt to make myself feel important. Of those 600k people that are essentially like me let's say only 1% actually have the drive to act upon an idea. That's still 60k people. I can live with that. but I need to beat the other 59,999 bastards out there to something. Something that WILL set me apart from everyone else.
I know my wife is the only one still reading, but even that makes me feel good. If by some chance there is still anyone else reading, please drop me a line here, on Facebook or Twitter.
I think I may revist my last blog post after I walk the dog. Talk to you (or myself soon)
My Little Demon
1 comment:
You'll never know when or if someone is going to happen upon your blog and be inspired by something you wrote, so it's not a bad idea to keep the door open. And blogging as though you are in the zombie apocalypse could be a lot of fun.
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