Perseverance plays an important role in successful blogging. There will be days you don’t feel like writing or don’t feel like you have anything to say. But writing is a discipline and requires pushing through and writing anyway. Excellence requires commitment.
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I also don’t know if this is just a phase that will pass or if this is truly the slow death of this blog. But at some point you have to ask yourself is this really worth it anymore.
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Sometimes I like the idea of reading books and writing reviews more than I do the actual process of reading books and writing reviews. Sometimes I like just the reading part …
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I periodically get in funks where nothing quite seems to “work” for me and I find myself reading three or four books at one time looking for something that will connect or get the juices flowing again; something that compels me to write because I want to get my opinion down rather than writing because I haven’t written anything here for awhile.
Continue readingThe sense that people were reading my reviews still felt like it was worth something. But when those visitors stopped coming it felt like that value was gone too. Suddenly I was asking myself “Why do I continue to do this again?”
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The sense that people were reading my reviews still felt like it was worth something. But when those visitors stopped coming it felt like that value was gone too. Suddenly I was asking myself “Why do I continue to do this again?”
Continue readingStatistics that may be interesting only to me … (and by “interesting” I mean “depressing”)
Comparing traffic the last three years:
June 2013: 1,322 / June 2012: 2,868 / June 2011: 4,011
I, Kevin Jay Holtsberry, do solemnly swear not to mess with the theme on this website for a period of six months under pain of accepted mocking and derision …
UPDATE: OK, I lied, Sue Me. Actually, feel free to mock and deride. But after a little further thought I thin this theme works best for the foreseeable future.
Seriously, I am going to stop messing with things. I am at heart a restless soul and so when bored tend to muck about. But I did want to get to a somewhat minimalistic theme that is readable and easy on the eyes. I also decided to return to more of a blog style as that is really what this is; not a magazine or a Tumblr site, etc. So, I am really going to do my best not to change anything for a significant period of time. Here is to less fiddling and more content. Fingers crossed.
I am contemplating expanding CM beyond just books to more of a general purpose blog with a wider range of content (sports, current events, personal musings, etc.) instead of focusing on mostly just book reviews. Strong opinions on this? Drop in the comments (please!).
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