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Wanting to keep posting but feeling pointless here. I miss my old journal. I did not have any expectations of it.
Trying to get back on track around here but I forgot where the track is. Life is in such limbo. Not sure I like that
much anymore. One day at a time as they say and hope for the best.
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Why do you feel pointless here?
ReplyDeleteNo offense but I feel like no one reads it and with my personal journals, that is some what expected, here I am looking for feed back. Expectations I suppose. Plus my journals feel more important. I am always surprised when you comment because I did not know anyone was reading me.Thanks
ReplyDeleteMartian,
ReplyDeleteIt feels like no one reads me here and I am always surprised to find a comment from you. Pleasently so. With my personal journals I do not expect anything in the way of feedback but here I seek it. We live most of the time quite isolated from the rest of the world here and I can use the feed back. We have a large cattle ranch and sorry to say nine times out of ten the cow is more interested in my writing.Not that I am trying to feel sorry for myself just that I know that my writing requires stimulation and or conversation, at least somne interest.I am just trying to find a way of molding my blog into some thing worth reading, trust me even I get bored with it and don't reread it. :)
I hear you, Kelly. I'm a little late to reply here, but I'll give it a shot, anyway. Building readers is all about making connections: being real and understandable, and reaching out to people. The reason that I started reading your blog is because you subscribed to mine, so (curious) I followed to see what you had to say. And I found some truth in what you'd written, and that's why I keep coming back.
ReplyDeleteRead the blogs that you like, and comment on them with honest words. People will respond. Some of the best people I know, I have met right here online through blogger. Just by being honest with them, and admiring what they write. Because people write their hearts out here -- just as you have been doing -- and they just want to feel like they're not alone, mostly. To feel some validation.
And keep writing your real thoughts -- you are off to a great start. But write for yourself, not for anyone else. Otherwise you will burn out.
For what it's worth, my last blog (since deleted) was one that I wrote on for almost a year before someone commented. Then it got pretty popular, and people began to comment on old postings. You never really know which of your musings will capture someone's imagination -- but they all capture your own, and the act of writing is fulfilling.
So don't give up, Kelly. You've got good things to say.