This blog hit two records late in the week: As of Friday, it had received more visitors than in all of 2022 or any previous year. And sometime this weekend it will have had more views by those visitors than in any previous year.
Not that I’m shooting for records here. I’m letting the blog speak for itself without promoting it. It is finding its own audience, albeit small. Most of you are family and friends; others are strangers who have found it through WordPress Reader or some other source. To all of you, many thanks! Having an audience is its own reward.
At some point late this year or early next, I hope to have one or more books ready to go into production. I’ve been working on those in the background when I can carve out large blocks of work time. I expect to have more of those days coming up this summer, but meanwhile Real Life intervenes. Even so, I’m starting to conquer my procrastination by managing to write every day, even if it’s just short entries that I can turn around in an hour or so for the blog.
I’m behind on my Lessons from 1979 series just when it’s starting to get interesting, so I’ve been posting every day until I catch up with the corresponding dates in 1979. After that, probably the best pace is about three posts a week. I wouldn’t want to wear out my welcome.
Next week: I continue my first “big story” — even though in retrospect it seems rather small — and begin to suffer burnout as I juggle a work life and try to freelance, both for an entertainment publication and on speculation.
Oh, and I’ll have one new, contemporary post, on the 23rd of May. Until then, don’t buy the liverwurst!
In case you missed it …
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Journeyman Journalist, 1979: Passing by the bar
Reading Time: 2 minutes I didn’t have the necessary devotion, interest, motivation, or drive to continue my legal studies. Had I subconsciously decided not to return to the law?
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Budding Writer, 1979: Shifting gears
Reading Time: 2 minutes Biking through the countryside gave me a new view of the paper’s coverage area, and time to think about the stories I wanted to tell.
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Journeyman Journalist, 1979: No strings attached
Reading Time: 2 minutes Does a reporter create a conflict of interest by accepting publicity work from the subject of a story? It could have become a tangled web.
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Budding Writer, 1978: ‘I Do Care’
Reading Time: < 1 minutes As a writer, I should care more about what other people think and less about what they think of me.
