Shooting at Bubbles

Last week or so I wrote a post outlining six ways that bloggers can make sure that their blogging life could end up being a lonely and frustrating experience; and in some cases could even result in you calling it a failure. At the time I hit the publish button I was pretty sure that I had missed one or two other possible ways to make sure that you’ll forever be relegated to the blogging minors and, well, I was right.

However I first want to give a shout out to Tyler Romeo who was good enough to read the post and then much to my pleasure used it as a launching point for a very good post of his own on the subject. For me that is one of the highest complements that one blogger can give to another lonely soul sitting behind a keyboard trying hard to string the words together that will adequately express their thoughts and ideas.

Tyler’s points

Even though he agreed with my sediment it was only up to a point because as he put it

Despite my adversity toward pessimism, it is true. This very blog gets little over one hundred views on a given post. It saddens me to consider these statistics, but it gives me all the more reason to write this post, because there are a few things Steve left out that at least I think are very important in blogging: motivation, your inner circle, and interaction. Without these three concepts, blogging is exactly how Steve describes it: a cold dark world.

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