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talia

It did go longer than usual, but I really only wanted this in one post. It needed to be discussed, but I don’t have the intestinal fortitude to drag it out. Normally, if this was, say, writing, I would have whacked it into installments. BUT, I do put in pics and bullets for those who want to scan 😀

And blogging does work, just not the way most people do it.

I had a similar philosophy when I started running many ears ago. I’d wave at every other runner and tell them “looking good” or some other short, positive encouragement that I could manage between gasps. Because I knew the odds were, a few weeks later, they wouldn’t be out there running any more. Maybe my few words would help get them over the hump. (It never seemed to work long term for the runners, but I always assumed they just moved to a different part of town.)

Same with writers. I’ve helped a few, and it feels good to help. And that’s odd all by itself because it mean all those nuns in school were right – never saw that coming. It also SUCKS when the writers you help go on to have more success than me, but now at least I am friends with writers who are more successful than I am… wait, what? Yes. Yeah, That’s right. So maybe they can help me now.

Anyway, great job with this. I read posts by successful authors saying that blogging doesn’t work anymore. Maybe they are right. Or maybe they are just winnowing the field of competition in their own way.