Want to know my secret?
Do you want to know what makes my blog so special? Why I stand out like a fuchsia flower in a mess of dirt and weeds?
It’s the clean lines. The crisp space. The typo-free paragraphs, easy-to-read word choice, frequent fragments, awesome alliteration…
There is nothing special.
There is no special here. This blog is just a blog. I am just a girl. Standing in front of my readers, asking them to love me.
I like my bloggy friends. They talk to me. And listen. Which is not easy as I can go on a bit. I ramble. I freewrite and hit “publish”.
That’s bad. But, also, good.
I feel like we’re hanging out in a coffee shop, sipping a mocha latte, you know?
Better still, sitting at a bar with a bottle of wine in front of us. *pours another glass* Cheers!
If you read this, you’ve pretty much met me.
This post? This whole blog? It’s just me. Unfiltered me.
The completely awesome thing about you is that you talk to me even when the popular kids walk by.
There are far more fashionable, trendy, nichey, blogs out there yet, week after week, month after month, readers still visit and chat with me.
And that’s pretty special.
My Sunday (on Tuesday) thoughts in 200 words or less.
Do you have a nicheless blog? Do you feel like you’re “just another blog” in the big blogosphere? Do you care?
And it’s people like you that will keep our spirits up during these terrible times!
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Thanks, lovely. 🌸💕 I hope you’re doing well.
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Thank you! 🙂
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No, thank you, Ms. Debbi Mack, Queen of the Bad Fortune Cookies! 🥠
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My blog is great writing practice and since not many people read me, I can release compilations from blog posts edited to book form as a BOOK. Lol. Seriously, I am protozoa in this ocean of blogs. But well, my books are also well liked but not well distributed. In the end, although I love being read, I do it for me and invite everyone for the ride. if I need a reminder at how insignificant my blog and books are, I’ll just look at sales and blog visit numbers. If I want to know how important it can be, I go back to messages and comments of people thanking me for doing what I do and how I do it. Btw, I do love this blog and one of the few I read consistently-ish.
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I, too, am some sort of single-celled microorganism. Perhaps an amoeba? I don’t look at my blog numbers. I’ve never seen them and don’t know where to look if I wanted to (I don’t). Sales… I’m with you. In the same tiny boat in that vast ocean. Though I really try to stay away from the void of my sales, too. And I am also with you on the importance being in the messages and comments, even if they’re private, with the gratitude. On that note, thank you.
I’m all about dancing with myself and writing for myself. And blogs are definitely great practice. Alas, for me, my blog and my writing are completely different animals (which is not good–as I’ve been told numerous times). Here’s to single-celled microorganisms who dream of being sharks! 🦈
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Lol you’re blog is definitely bigger than an amoeba 😉 I try avoid the numbers game which is too easy to fall into. I see so many people often boasting over numbers and often wonder how much is it real and how much it’s just posing? Always about the connection and hey, self dancing is awesome 😀 And I thing everything I do is an extension and though nothing makes much headway to make this writing business more sustainable, at least I have a good time doing it. Here’s to rocking the kasbah, dear shark 😉
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Down with numbers! Down with posers! 😉 Rocking the Kasbah with you, my friend. Cheers! 🍻
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Nah course you’re special. As is your blog. And books and… all of it really…
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Aw, Geoff, you really are a softie sometimes. 🥰 Thanks.
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Yep, I think being spongy is one of my superpowers…
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Spongy like cake?
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spongy like cake, indeed…
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These are the kind of blogs I enjoy. Real people with real thoughts. Some places are too slick and polished to be genuine.
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I don’t know. Those slick, polished sites get traffic and are good for a lot of things. That said, I really do enjoy writing my ill-advised, niche-less wanderings. It *is* real and, same as you, I love real blogs because I like to see the person behind the curtain. It’s one of the reasons I like your blog so much. Thanks, Craig. 🙂
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I find a lot of that traffic is static, and doesn’t interact at all. I’d rather have friends who speak up on occasion. All my posts aren’t awesome, but I try to keep them fun.
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I don’t follow traffic (I take the road less travelled). Honestly, I don’t look at numbers or stats or whatever on my own blog but I think you’re right. I find that to be true on blogs as well as social media like Twitter. People with tens of thousands of followers and 2 replies and those with a couple hundred followers and 20 replies. I prefer the engagement instead of the numbers. (And your posts are fun.) 🙂
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You are special.
Which means I might be too…
No, you are definitely most special.
And I like your books.
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Thank you, D. 🙂 You are special. Also, I feel like that is some form of poetry I should totally know and it’s escaping me at the moment and bothering me and now you’re going to tell me what it is or that it is, indeed, not a specific form of poetry and, either way, I’ve spent time being bothered about it.
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Ha! Nope. Nothing special about that comment except that sometimes I hit return between sentences. But I counted syllables too… nope, nothing special, no patterns. Sorry. I didn’t mean to bother you. Just wanted to acknowledge your post and reaffirm that you’re special.
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D. Avery is cool
Mysterious poetess
Of lovely comments
haiku ??? 😉
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I think your blog is special. 😉
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Thank you. 🥰
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The beauty of kindness and our blogs will help us get through the days ahead. Blogs are a wonderful thing.
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The beauty of kindness. I love that. Thanks, Tony. Hope you and your family are well. Blog and be kind. 🙂
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Lifting a glass to you, Sarah! Cheers to special places and crisp clean lines!
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Thanks, Charli. 🍷 Right back at you and the special place you’ve created. Cheers!
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I rather like that mine’s more of a way to prompt and remind myself.
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Prompting and reminding ourselves. I do love that.
From your lovely reminding site: I always heard peeling an orange (or apple) in one piece and throwing it over your shoulder forms the letter of the man you’d marry. What did you peel it for? 😉
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fun! and thanks for the compliment. Hugs and jelly-babies.
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🙂 🍊
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I think your blog is special because it’s honest and it’s you – no pretenses. And that’s my favorite kind. I’m not a fan of coffee, but you know I’ll take the glass of wine!
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No pretenses here, my friend. Past tenses, sure. But that’s it.
Who needs coffee when we’ve got good books, Northern Exposure, dark chocolate, and red wine? 🍷 Cheers!
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Love this and you are special!
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Thanks. Right back at you, Barbara. 🌸💕 Hope you’re doing well.
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We are – just staying home like the world. 🙂
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Of course you’re blog is special – even if I don’t get to it half as much as I should do. When I do, it’s always a treat. And I’m looking forward to visiting again and again and again…
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I don’t get to half the blogs half as much as I would like to. It’s all good. Carry on! (Get it? Carrion? I know, I’m hilarious.) 🙂 Thanks, Graeme.
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And you’ve been looking for an opportunity to insert that in a comment to me for ages, haven’t you?
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I haven’t! It came to me in the moment. 😉 I’m just that good.
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Must just be me that does that, then…
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Nope. I do that. Just didn’t in this case. You are in good company, my friend.
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I love that you said your readers are like the kids who talk to you, even when the popular ones walk by. I feel exactly the same way about my blog.
Here’s to you and your specialness – and I mean it.
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Right? It’s so true. Blog-land is like high school. I’ve said it before and I stand by it. As far as specialness…right back at you, my friend. Love your blog. 📽️❤️
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