In the 68%
I wrote previously that nearly 68% of all blogs go unread, and I realized today that I am among that number. It’s disheartening, to have so much to say and such a chance at interaction and idea sharing, only to find that most people would rather waste away in front of sites like YouTube or Guzer. Our culture has turned from art (was it ever really concerned with art in the first place?) to entertainment; from enriching our minds and lives to spoon-feeding us full of the latest tele-garbage.
And here I am, a student of writing, literature, and the Web, sure in my belief that all we needed was a boost, someone to come along and make us think. I pride myself on my ability to think for myself and make decisions independent of the masses in our sheep-like society. I thought I could move people, make them think. At the very least, make them question the norm, shrug off the PC bullshit they’re surrounded with day in and day out, and help them consider a different point of view.
Perhaps I have failed in that. I mean, who am I to blame blog-readers for my failure? I’m fully prepared to shoulder the blame for this dead blog.
So I’m throwing in the towel, calling it quits, closing up shop. My hits have been dead for three or four days now, and true, I haven’t been posting, but even before that, when I WAS posting every day, my hits were meager at best.
As Eric Cartman might say: “Screw you guys, I’m goin’ home!”
J.B.
Dude don’t give up. I too am an aspiring author and I am desperate to read the struggles of other aspiring authors.
Write for yourself…not an audience. The audience will come later, if the writing is true. Eh?
Dont give in.
You have only been posting for a month? And you want to quit?
The key to getting readership is posting on other peoples blogs…
And it is impossible to blog every day and be a fiction writer, dont do it. It will kill the fiction.
And try NOT writing the book in chronological order. My first novel I wrote in two months. I knew the ending from the very beginning…or rather had a very good idea of the ending. Then I just started writing middle chapters.
The first chapter that I wrote ended up being the second chapter in Part II of the novel.
Good luck, dude.