Back in late August of 2018, I started tracking which countries I had received visitors from to my website. My goal was soon clear, to get at least one visitor from each possible location in the world.
In December of 2017, when my blog was just a few months young, I set up a Mailchimp email newsletter list.
Besides putting a link to a signup form in the header, I never marketed this.I never even linked to the signup form at the end of any of my articles.
As this is my 200th post on this blog, I want to take a look back at my most popular blog posts so far.
Here’s to the next 200!
So you have written something.. Now what?
Now you have to find an audience to read it, and before you can find an audience, you have to seek it!
Tomorrow marks the first anniversary of when I published my very first blog post!
I have been posting three days a week for a year, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, resulting in a whopping 157 posts, including this one.
I am going to continue with this schedule out the month of October, but after that I might cut back, at least a little.
I have started working at a new location, and I hope to start posting my new comic here very soon, so those changes in my life is enough of a strain to make three posts each week difficult to accomplish.
I am glad I was able to stick with it for a year, and I feel some kinship to the musician Jonathan Coulton, in how he recorded one new song each week for a year for his Thing-A-Week project, even if that must have been considerably harder than what I have done.
I would like to thank everyone who reads my posts.
When I first started blogging, I read some advice that said I should find a niche, and stick with it. In fact, I have read a variation on that advice several times.
But by diversifying your writing, you get people with different interests talking to each other.
It can be interesting to hear about a subject from a person who don’t normally engage with the culture around that subject.
And I am not just my photographies, my taste in movies, my fiction-writing, my past, or my cooking.
I am all of these things, and much more.
I write about all the things I love and care about; be it games, art, my girlfriend, food or music.
My niche is me.
Lana Cole of Welcome To Our Campfire has tagged me to play this sort of pass-it-forward blog-game. Thanks Lana! 😀
The Rules: Thank the nominator (oh, I already did that), display the picture on your post, list five things you like about yourself (one thing must be a physical attribute) and tag three or more people.
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1] I have always been creative and imaginative, but only recently have I started trying to get this imagination out of my own skull, to share with all of you.
2] I think I may be a good boyfriend. She keeps telling me so, at least 🙂
3] I am generally pretty happy with the way I look overall, only that I could stand to lose some belly fat. But I am a chef after all, so at least it is on-brand. But for health-reasons, if nothing else.
4] I think I have a good taste in fiction from some diverse media. Taste is pretty subjective anyway, but I feel like I could recommend something good in whatever media anyone likes the best.
5] For the most part, I am good at not meeting trouble halfway, or being a worrywart. It has happened that I have let my worries take the better of me, but for the most part I manage to be pretty calm about potential future problems.
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=&4=& of Walkin’, Writin’, Wit and Whimsy takes a lot of nice photographs during her walks around Southeast Michigan. That, combined with her writing, makes for a great blog!
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