You know, there are days I wonder if anyone’s out there reading this.
I guess it’s the drawback of having a politically-based blog where I either need to spend many hours a day being attuned to current events and other goings-on or just cut my losses and drop back to a more occasional posting schedule. It’s not like I don’t have things to write about but what I need is incentive of the financial variety.
People tell me I have a talent for such things, but perhaps my talent is limited in that I have little feedback as to whether I’m doing a good job. The one aspect of being the sole contributor is that my comments aren’t automatically built up by other contributors chiming in nor do I have all day to play “anonymous” commenter like some are accused of doing to pimp their site.
One nice aspect of my site is the ability to prewrite posts and Lord knows when I’m in the mood I can crank out content with the best of them. Yet this is one of those days I feel like I’m beating my head against the wall and being one against many is quite overwhelming.
Normally my weekend plan is generally to post three things: an edition of Friday Night Videos, some filler article on Saturday, and my previous week’s op-ed on Sunday morning. But this week I didn’t have a sufficient number of videos to fill my roster (since I don’t seek them out, I let them come to me) and my op-ed didn’t clear in time for publication Sunday.
Maybe I just need a day or two off, but an encouraging word or two would be nice and marketing leads for a manuscript I’ve written golden. I’ve never really been a marketer or businessman (aside from a brief foray into insurance which turned out to be a wash at best) because it’s not something which comes naturally to me. Moreso I’m a thinker and a dreamer.
Consider it a lack of motivation combined with a rare gorgeous weekend where it’s just me and my significant other, who I’ve never properly thanked here for all of her support. She doesn’t just contribute Shorebird of the Week photos!
Anyway, if you need your fix of my writing perhaps you’ve missed my Examiner pages (just click the orange icons to the right of this story) or don’t read the Patriot Post (almost every week I contribute to their Friday Digest – this week it was the FCC and Jesus as humorist stories. They add a couple things here and there but it’s my original piece.)
So I think I’m taking a day or two off and let the local blogosphere be for the moment. I’m sure it will be here when I get back. You know, maybe it’s the depths to which many sites have descended to which brings me down in that I get associated with them. Or perhaps it’s just the fact I’m closing in on 2,000 posts over 4 1/2 years and I need a spell away. Who knows? Maybe something will happen in the next couple days where I’m inspired to redouble my efforts. This isn’t goodbye, just a quick breather of a hiatus; or, a recharging of the creative battery.
Anyway, see you in a couple.