Comments on: So…is blogging pretty much dead?

By: Pam Bachorz

Pam Bachorz — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:12:15 +0000

Sara, I’ve been struggling with what the heck to do with my blog and I went to yours for inspiration…and found this! Well… I am glad I am not alone. Though I still wish I could either climb aboard the blog horse and ride or find the courage to turn off the lights entirely.

By: Sara

Sara — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 05:53:12 +0000

@Jeff Gottesfeld, Good points. (I do want the world to remember that I exist BETWEEN books so that when the next one comes, it is still listening...)

By: Jeff Gottesfeld

Jeff Gottesfeld — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 05:13:21 +0000

Sara –

I loved this entry. SFE. So Flipping Eloquent.

Finally — I think I’ve said this to you before — when all is said and done, the world will remember you for your books far more than it will remember you for your blogging, the same way the world remembers A FAREWELL TO ARMS far more than the Hemingway correspondence. (No comparison between you and the Bearded Fisherman intended!).

I sometimes wonder if we writers have a limited but unknown number of words in our brains, like the limited but unknown number of beats allocated by the Almighty to our hearts.

We need to think carefully about where to allocate them, ourselves. Which is what this entry did for me.

By: Jackie Parker

Jackie Parker — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:01:42 +0000

@Sara, I can't deny that I have made real life connections that have enriched my life because of blogging, and I am still rather in the process of figuring out how to be true to RL and maintain what of VL has become real. Right now, Twitter & FB are where I'm finding a semblance of that balance. But, at the same time, they don't really allow me to have the big mouth I had.

By: Sara

Sara — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:54:17 +0000

@Amy @ My Friend Amy, The temptation to get personal is what kind of fascinates me. When I'm feeling that, I wonder what it's about and what kind of connection I'm looking for that I'm not getting elsewhere? It's interesting.

By: Amy @ My Friend Amy

Amy @ My Friend Amy — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:38:38 +0000

Well, I’m not a writer so I can’t really comment from that perspective, but I still love blogging the best out of all of these things. I enjoy Twitter and facebook and the many other ways to connect, but I actually do read blogs to either get to know others better or be challenged in my thinking. And there’s something about the space a blog provides a person to write about their life that is much more than what twitter offers, I think.

I do understand the need for privacy, though. It can actually become a little bit tempting to blog everything at times, so there are parts of my life I try not to ever talk about on my blog. After all, in many cases the blog to reader relationships is very one sided–as I’m sure the author to reader relationship can be, too.

By: Sara

Sara — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:33:05 +0000

@Lindsay Roylance, Thanks – I know I should know that by now – most people I meet who say they read my blog tell me that they never comment. It seems like commenters represent a pretty small % of readers…

By: Lindsay Roylance

Lindsay Roylance — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:50:14 +0000

I’ve never commented much on blogs. I think I’m a part of the group of blog readers who just enjoy reading them. I hope all of you bloggers know we’re out there, waiting for your next post.

By: Sara

Sara — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:46:01 +0000

@Michelle Zink, P.S. Everyone, here is the link to Michelle’s post on same: http://michellezinkbooks.wordpress.com/2010/03/16/blogging-the-blogosphere/

By: Sara

Sara — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:42:16 +0000

@Michelle Zink, Haha – “overstimulated child” is a great description of it, yes. But sometimes it’s fun to be a little bit overstimulated – it injects some excitement into what is otherwise a pretty staid work lifestyle. I know what you mean about feeling rude, but I’ve learned to get over that. Twitter is very much a jump-in, jump-out conversation.

I’m going to try not to think so hard/worry so much about that stuff in the paragraph you quote. We’ll see…