To be read on Orble, you don't have to write at all
July 14th 2007 12:24
When I started writing on Orble, I didn't do much of writing before nor was I much aware of the blogging world. Next month, I will have completed an year of writing here. It's time to take stock what that year meant to me.
The initial months I wanted to post every day and some times would finish books just to review them here. It's an eclectic selection. Most of the book I wrote about where the common ones available in council libraries here. I have often travelled to different suburbs and checked out their libraries just to get a taste of their collections. That explains the choice of books.While reading, I became more and mroe engrossed in fantasies. I think I wrote more about them any other genre. That explains my posts.
In a way, writing here helped me not only to give shape to my thoughts but also acquire a small facility with language. I am still not very comfortable wth English which is not my first lanaguage but I am getting there. Many of my posts are full of typos and gramamtical bloopers but that's because I do not edit them and post them straight away, most times after a cursory check. It seems to be a careless way of doing things and the mark of a professional writer is to diligently edit his own stuff. I am far too lazy for that.
Personally, I see that much benefit in writing here. When I started, I would take hours to get a piece straight. Nowadays, I can write much faster and with less mental pain.
What of the readership? Typically my posts get very few commenters. I simply lack the ability to provoke comment. I have tried some stupid tricks just to get everybody's attention but nothing seems to work for me. While Orble was indifferent, Google wasn't. I daily get 500 hits. Even if 10% of them are reading my posts, that's still something.
Last month, I was very busy and couldn't write anything much less read. I was so preoccupied I didn't even check the site. Today, I checked it for the first time after 25 days and I am still getting the same number of readers. What does that prove?
The initial months I wanted to post every day and some times would finish books just to review them here. It's an eclectic selection. Most of the book I wrote about where the common ones available in council libraries here. I have often travelled to different suburbs and checked out their libraries just to get a taste of their collections. That explains the choice of books.While reading, I became more and mroe engrossed in fantasies. I think I wrote more about them any other genre. That explains my posts.
In a way, writing here helped me not only to give shape to my thoughts but also acquire a small facility with language. I am still not very comfortable wth English which is not my first lanaguage but I am getting there. Many of my posts are full of typos and gramamtical bloopers but that's because I do not edit them and post them straight away, most times after a cursory check. It seems to be a careless way of doing things and the mark of a professional writer is to diligently edit his own stuff. I am far too lazy for that.
Personally, I see that much benefit in writing here. When I started, I would take hours to get a piece straight. Nowadays, I can write much faster and with less mental pain.
What of the readership? Typically my posts get very few commenters. I simply lack the ability to provoke comment. I have tried some stupid tricks just to get everybody's attention but nothing seems to work for me. While Orble was indifferent, Google wasn't. I daily get 500 hits. Even if 10% of them are reading my posts, that's still something.
Last month, I was very busy and couldn't write anything much less read. I was so preoccupied I didn't even check the site. Today, I checked it for the first time after 25 days and I am still getting the same number of readers. What does that prove?
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Comment by Wendi
Congrats on the one year anniversary.
W
Comment by katyzzz
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You have written a post that is both thoughtful and provocative and it's a wonderful thing for you to be doing in order to improve your English which you say is not your first language. So, well done.
You have interpreted the Orble/Google great divide correctly.
About comments, to get them you need to give them, sometimes disproportionately. This will not only help your position on Orble, but expressing yourself via dialogue, be it all that it is not a true dialogue here, rather than monologue alone will also help your skills.
You have obviously put a lot of work into your blogs which is commendable but you can try writing more simply without so much research entailed which will lighten your burden and free up a little time for reading and commenting on other blogs.
Unfortunately, there is a lot here that is not well written or is written in a colloquial manner, but even that needs to be learned.
Congrats on your anniversary and I hope we see your presence here a little more often.
katyzzz
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