Never give up. Never surrender.
Stealing a line from "Galaxy Quest (1999)", one of my new maxims is to "Never give up. Never surrender." Despite some obstacles to blogging, as I've mentioned numerous times, I am still here. Some harassing critics (trolls) have come and gone, but I am still here.
Hari, a very good online friend, recently wrote how a lot of blogs have Gone awfully quiet and can't find an explanation for this broad phenomenon. Some reasons are that authors have given up, some have had their priorities shifted, and some have run out of things to write about.
While I really can't suggest anything to eradicate the first two reasons, the third reason is easy to destroy. As Hari recently found out, publishing speed-linking articles of some kind can fill the creative void. My own Blog Drive-Bys, Hari's Blog perambulations and Baxter's Blog walkabout (which he hasn't done in a while) are all examples of speed -linking articles and anyone can do them. They don't take that long to do.
Comments are considered the life blood of blogs for some authors. As Nirmal recently suggested in his article, How to Get More Comments on your Blog- Secrets Revealed, less can sometimes be more. If you post more than two articles per day, there's a chance that one or more of your articles will get missed. Most people comment on the first article of the front page, your index page. This is one of the reasons I've been attempting to limit myself to as many articles that will fit on the front page and try to leave a gap of time in the neighborhood of at least 24 hours from the first one of one day to the first one of the next. I am not always successful and the reasons are not always within my control.
Jon Phillips at SmartWealthyRich and Chris Lodge at Blog Op, as well as a host of others, have tons of articles in their archives on how to make your blogging life easier. Read those articles. Use them. If you have questions, contact them. They reply to email from readers all the time.
Employ my maxim and get away from the blogging blues. Never give up. Never surrender.
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Sounds like Galaxy Quest might have borrowed from or been inspired by Winston Churchill's famous speech: "We shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills. We shall never surrender." – Sir Winston Churchill, June 4, 1940
Thanks for the link & endorsement RT, Galaxy Quest is a top film
The speed linking post is always worthwhile, especially if you put a little thought into them (as you do)and turn them into mini reviews, rather than just link lists.
If you've been going a few months, why not trawl through your archives for your best (or worst!) posts and give them some publicity?
BTW, only just noticed your Favicon's changed-how many months have you had this one up?
Only about a week. I was waiting to see if anyone would notice.
Hey RT: Nice blog you have here.. this was a very useful post for me! I have been blogging for past some years and I get into that usual – "What should I write" rut.. and sometimes I keep writing like crazy!!
Would love to see what you think of my blog in one of your reviews sometime..
Cheers,
Desh
Drishtikone.com
Consider it done.
That's right RT, never give up. Never surrender. Have a great day.
Hey RT,
That's the spirit! But what is it that you are trying not to give up on? Blogging? Or the reason behind the blog? I couldn't grasp that part.
My thought was that if you had a clearly defined goal and a vision of achieving it. You would probably never think about giving up.
Just sharing my thoughts.
Cheers
James
That's because I implied both.
You're so right on the blog walkabouts, RT. I've around 70 blogs squirrelled away for future walkabouts, but I'm very much in a time of competing priorities.
However, rest assured I haven't given up
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I considered about doing speed linking in my blog, but I worry that (in my case anyway) I may not be able to add substance to the post, even with my personal comments thrown in. And to be honest, as good as your Blog Drive-bys may be, I find myself, more often than not, speed reading through those posts. I suppose I need to look into speed linking in a different angle… I dunno… *shrugs*
I've always believed that persistence is more important than genius. It definitely explains how an inferior product like windows got so far, because brilliance sure wasn't the selling point! Microsoft never gives up either.
I missed this post the first time around. Glad to see you still haven't surrendered.
Never give up,I like this sentence.