Ok...so I just received this email yesterday from "Anonymous":
"You have to start putting up more content about your life or you are going to lose readers."
It made me wonder, what is it, exactly, that you the readers want me to write about? If I write a blog post about a book I just published, that IS content about my life. That is what I'm doing at the moment. That is what I have been spending most of my time on since early December working on. At least I'm sharing that with you, the reader, rather than just giving the blog a two month hiatus.
I write the blog as a hobby. I make no money from it. The ads you see on the edges of the screen, known as "Adsense" in the blogger world, bring in (literally) pennies a month. The only ads that actually bring in some real money (though still not a lot) are the ones I put up myself as a blog post. So when you see those, don't freak out, it's just a way to help other writers and make a few extra bucks.
I've been writing this blog (and the Taiwan one) for almost five years. Any long time reader would know that I'm not always prolific. I go through periods of writing a lot of material, and periods of writing next to nothing. I have actually written quite a lot lately, it's just gone into the books, rather than the blog. I've published 5 books within the last two months, and there is no way I can continue that pace. When things start to slow down again, I will return to the blog. I always vowed that I would never be the type of blogger who just writes nonsense about what they had for breakfast or what dream they had the previous night. When that's all there is to write about, it's time to just give it up. If I don't have something interesting to write about, I'd rather not write anything at all.
As soon as you start pandering to your audience, it will not be worth reading. Have you ever read one of those blogs with 10,000 followers? They are as stupid as American television.
ReplyDeleteTo answer your question, I want you to write about Wookies.