There
have been many milestones since I started this blog. Many of them I had preconceived
notions from the very beginning as to when they would occur. I was completely
wrong regarding this latest one as I originally thought that it would happen
sometime during the fourth year of writing. This was later revised to a
timeline slightly more optimistic than reality but it really was slight. Basically
it breaks down to the originally projection of about one thousand views per
month later revised to over two thousand.
Well,
just over two years since the first words were posted, I hit the 50,000 views
mark. While a big number (at least for me) when you first look at it, it is
even bigger when you think about it. This blog has been viewed 50,000 times
which breaks down to roughly 67 views per day. Obviously some posts have been
more popular than others and some days have been more active than the rest.
That is the ebb and flow of writing in general and blogging in particular.
Think
about that for a second. On average, there were 67 clicks specifically with the
intention of reading the content that I have posted. Given the lack of
interesting content that has been produced overall, this just goes to show that
really anyone can do this. With that said, I appreciate each person and each
click that has been made since this blog was launched. It was never my intent
to gain a large readership but it is certainly nice to see people enjoying what
I am writing (or getting pissed off by it).
The
sheer volume is still completely foreign to me. I have written for a variety of
companies and executives over the years where these numbers are pretty insignificant
but having something with my name on it being read to such an extent is kind of
astounding. Of course, this is coming from someone who started off in the poetry
market where exposure and popularity are tremendously small in comparison to
other genres. Having this many people read my work now would have been
unthinkable in those days a decade ago.
The
trick now is trying to find the balance between past and present, quality and
quantity, honest and opinion, originality and reporting. It is a completely different
way of writing these days and something that I am still getting used to. I
treat this as a journal but have to maintain some kind of coherence in the
posts. It is a balance of writing and of time. It is work and play.
So,
thank you again for all your support but don’t just sit back and read. I
encourage you to do the same, write about what you want to record about your
life. Put yourself out there. Enjoy the process and the sharing of ideas. And,
of course, let me know if there is anything that you would like me to write
about and I will do my best to accommodate.
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