If you had to make a choice, would it be the blog or the book? A thought provoking post from Hugh’s Views and News.
Blogging, in my experience, is a strange beast. Show your blog you’re in charge and it behaves. But turn your back for just one minute, and it’ll sink its teeth right into you snarling, ‘Who is Master now?’
My early blogging years had a slow start for the first six months, and then one day, I found my poor blog under lock and key in spam prison. Back then, I had no idea what was going on, so I posted a plea for help. I didn’t think anybody would notice, but they did. Relieved to learn it was a widespread problem at the time (and nothing I had done wrong, phew!), it was soon rectified.
Better yet, I discovered a kind, caring, all-embracing community in the great wide ether that I hadn’t known existed.
From then on, blogging became a way of life as my blog took off. I kept…
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