Comments on: Why I hate blogging…but do it anyway

By: Heidi Kortman

Heidi Kortman — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 15:37:55 +0000

Say Cait, Your next tattoo? “That’s fine,
Choose Times New Roman eight, or nine.
Get inked in red, or blue or black,
From me you’ll get no words of flack.
But don’t choose green, I’ve heard it fades.
And when your phone cam has the shot,
of silly, sprawling Seuss-ian dots
that spiral down your youthful gam,
and you post it on Instagram,
Hashtag my name: Heidi.Kortman.
Please spell it right, I’d like the credit.
I’ve heard tattoos are hard to edit.”

By: JJ Toner

JJ Toner — Sun, 04 Nov 2018 08:57:19 +0000

Great post, Cait.

I’d love if you wrote a piece called “Understanding currency, income, and prices in history.” Never mind in historical fiction.

Tell me why the Roman legionnaires were paid in salt and what happened to the Deutchmark in 1929 and how to work out the monthly income of a Wehrmacht soldier in 1940.

Never heard of Yoast, or Jetpack, and what’s that graphics doohickey that you pay $10 a month for? Is that how you create all those captioned pictures?

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By: Cait Reynolds

Cait Reynolds — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 15:03:19 +0000

In reply to Jacqui Murray.

You’re not doing it wrong if you’re enjoying it! A lot of my blogging is multi-purpose with complex targeting. That’s part of why I’m so…ugh…because if I could just let fly with the words, it would be so much more fun! Keep enjoying what you are doing, and don’t let any bastards (or me) grind you down 😀

By: Jacqui Murray

Jacqui Murray — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 14:47:23 +0000

Wow. I hadn’t thought of any of those negatives. I just…blog… I like writing. Now I realize I’m doing it all wrong…

I’m going to go sit in a hard chair and reflect on that.

By: Heidi Kortman

Heidi Kortman — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 14:01:56 +0000

In reply to Deborah Makarios. Thank you. I'm glad to see I'm not alone in my enjoyment of expanded vocabulary.

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 03:12:08 +0000

For me I think one of the biggest obstacles to enjoying blogging is the way in which it’s so easy to feel like I could be doing more, and losing sight of the fact that there’s always “more”, particularly writing more posts, posting more frequently, etc.
I think I’m happiest when I recognize what my comfortable level of blogging is, and don’t push myself to exceed it when I know I can’t maintain that higher rate.
I also think there are times where blogging feels like a means to an end. The goal is to write fictional stories, but along the way blog posts have to also be written, and that’s definitely a mistake. I try to remember that I’m writing blog posts to further understand and clarify to myself what I think, and learn from others (and have interesting conversations with others) via the comments feature.

By: Kit Dunsmore

Kit Dunsmore — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 00:18:42 +0000

My reluctance to blog comes from fear, mostly. I find myself worrying that I will sound like an idiot, offend someone, or worst of all, be wrong. But I also know I need to be more open with my opinions and talk about things that are in debate, in order to get a debate going. And I don’t know if anyone else asked, but please do the post about money in historical fiction. I’d love to get your take on that.

By: Heidi Kortman

Heidi Kortman — Sun, 21 Oct 2018 23:54:08 +0000

In reply to Cait Reynolds. Thank you very much. You may need to do it in 8 point font.