Most bloggers who've been at it for some time would claim that Real Life transcends any blog matters and yet it seems to me, from what I've seen, that many bloggers cannot let it go, even when they run out of things to say.
Let's face it, our blog is probably the only forum where more than our immediate circle get to hear [or read] our views on matters. That's at least so for the political blogger. The food and garden blogger is a different creature but his or her motivation might be the sense of community in that corner of the sphere. That's a motivation for many political bloggers as well.
Real Life does intrude and any day now it's going to with me.
Not to put too fine a point on it, when I go, my internet connection goes too. I don't think it's going to be a total thing, as there is always the local library membership which allows an hour a day and so I'd aim to keep one post up a day but it is going to severely curtail the research time. Quite frankly, I shouldn't be spending hours in the local library when I need to be out following the recovery plan.
I can't see it ever being permanent or even a hiatus but it's certainly going to be a dent in the output for some time, for very necessary reasons and it must be any day now. I now have a commitment to Bloghounds as well and there are advertisers starting to trickle in who are expecting the blog to be maintained.
I don't know how many of us consider our loyalty to the readers either; after all, a reader is a person who clicks in from time to time to see if anything interesting is happening but each of us, in these troubled times, does like to see certain faces in the blog firmament and are sad when they drop away.
Let's face it, our blog is probably the only forum where more than our immediate circle get to hear [or read] our views on matters. That's at least so for the political blogger. The food and garden blogger is a different creature but his or her motivation might be the sense of community in that corner of the sphere. That's a motivation for many political bloggers as well.
Real Life does intrude and any day now it's going to with me.
Not to put too fine a point on it, when I go, my internet connection goes too. I don't think it's going to be a total thing, as there is always the local library membership which allows an hour a day and so I'd aim to keep one post up a day but it is going to severely curtail the research time. Quite frankly, I shouldn't be spending hours in the local library when I need to be out following the recovery plan.
I can't see it ever being permanent or even a hiatus but it's certainly going to be a dent in the output for some time, for very necessary reasons and it must be any day now. I now have a commitment to Bloghounds as well and there are advertisers starting to trickle in who are expecting the blog to be maintained.
I don't know how many of us consider our loyalty to the readers either; after all, a reader is a person who clicks in from time to time to see if anything interesting is happening but each of us, in these troubled times, does like to see certain faces in the blog firmament and are sad when they drop away.
So that's the current state of play.
I shall miss your prolific posts,even though I have not been around as much, being busy in real life ,also.
ReplyDelete"when I go, my internet connection goes too"
ReplyDeleteThat's a bit cryptic. Best of luck, anyway.
I know where you are coming from James, but I will miss the range of topics you, cover.
ReplyDeleteBest of luck and keep the faith.
Good luck with it all. Everything will work out just fine in the end.
ReplyDeleteAs someone to whom real life has seriously impeded on their blogging to the extent that I no longer have the time to do research or even caustic commentary. I wish you well, I've recently closed my blog because real life has to come first.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad to see that you have a recovery plan; I haven't the first idea how to go about formulating one, partly because, stuck where I am, up to my ears in debt and with no job and no money (as in very nearly absolutely none) I have no hope of anything in the short term. I'm actually so desperate that I've taken the drastic step of signing on (I actually prefer large gaps in my contributions' history to claiming dole).
ReplyDeleteEnough of my woes: Good luck Higham.
Good luck. A drink this year?
ReplyDeleteWilliam - I really do sympathize. It's an absolute bastard and so difficult for such as us to break back in.
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking up every lateral way I can get back in. I've even been thinking - well, if no one will give me a job, I'll employ people instead and the type of people I'll employ will be good operators who found themselves stuck in a socialist nightmare which won't allow them back in.
I'm thinking of the areas to operate in - maybe selling of products in the area of expertise of such people as us. I think we can't do it alone - we need to pool resources and ideas and to provide some service people would need.
Racking the brain over this at the moment and just know there is a solution.
We've got something in that we are blog connected, all of us. Now surely we can use that as a starting point, something online perhaps.
Quiet Man, Cherie, Uber, Mark, Angus - thanks.
Sackers - most certainly. Just need to get a base established first.
You're sounding most entrepreneurial, James, this is very promising.
ReplyDeleteThey've got us down for the count and I'm damned if I'm accepting that. We can stay demoralized or think of a way out. We need ideas which will work. I can't believe we have to go o/s - there must be some way to run a business in the UK.
ReplyDeleteIt can become an obsession. But it seems to me that you still have plenty to say.
ReplyDeleteGood luck anyway.
I am sure with your language things there are lots of things you could do! I am sure I have said that before...
ReplyDeleteAs long as you don't adopt one of those tiny fonts, or start using white print on a black backgound (or dark grey on mid grey) ... I'll expect to drop by. BEST OF LUCK.
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