No More Personal Blog

Guy Hogan on Sep 30, 2009

Tags: blog, Blogging, content, triond, writer, Writing

I’ve decided to give up my personal blog and to blog from Triond from now on.

My work on Triond has made my personal blog redundant. I’ve known this for some time. Once I accepted that my personal blog was redundant I had to decide what to do with it.

It’s not easy letting go something that you’ve worked hard on for a year. I liked being the Editor/Publisher of The Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette. It gave me an identity. I could point to it and say proudly, that’s mine.

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But a professional writer, and I do consider myself a professional writer, cannot afford to be sentimental about his work.

Triond is now my blogging platform of choice. Will I be able to make the transition from blogging on my own personal blog to blogging on Triond? I don’t know. The Gazette has a lot of adult content on it. I can’t do that here. In the six months since I’ve been on Triond, I’ve had two pieces declined because of adult content. I’m okay with that. I’m a professional.

And if Triond is now my blogging platform, what do I blog about? A blog has to be about something.

No, this transition is not going to be easy. Like all writing, blogging on Triond is going to be a journey. I don’t know how the journey will end. There is a real possibility that I may fail. But I’m a professional. A writer who is afraid of failure will be as successful as a boxer afraid of a punch.

I do know that every journey, no matter how short or how long, begins with a first step.

This is the first step. Let’s hope it’s not the last.

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chitragopi on Sep 30, 2009
Wish you the best in your steps.
Papa Sparks on Sep 30, 2009
Hope everything works out for you here.
martie on Sep 30, 2009
You will be fine Guy. You are talented and people are going to love you work.
mystery writter on Sep 30, 2009
The first step is always the hardest,its after that it will get easier.talent dont go to waste if it is worked at and that you do from reading your writing.
Guy Hogan on Sep 30, 2009
chitragopi, I feel pretty good about this decision. I really had no other choice. My personal blog was taking away from what I was doing on Triond.
Guy Hogan on Sep 30, 2009
Papa, I’m looking forward to blogging on Triond. It will be a new experience and will keep me busy.
Guy Hogan on Sep 30, 2009
martie, thank you for that vote of confidence. I’m excited about blogging on Triond. I have no idea what to expect. But it no longer made sense to keep working on my personal blog.
Guy Hogan on Sep 30, 2009
mystery writter, sometimes a writer has to try something new no matter how it turns out. I’m trying to grow.
Marie Antoinette on Sep 30, 2009
Wow, good luck. I wish you well. Sometimes I get very comfortable with something, and that prevents my growing, so I understand.
Guy Hogan on Sep 30, 2009
Marie, that’s what it’s all about, growing as a writer. No matter what happens, I know I’ve made the right decision.
PR Mace on Sep 30, 2009
Best of luck and I hope you do well. I am with you and I finally had to give up my blog it was too much work, when all I really want to do it write.
royee100 on Sep 30, 2009
good luck ur work is good and i think u will be ok
Guy Hogan on Sep 30, 2009
PR, thank you. And that’s why I had to give up my personal blog. I was working on it and Triond. That was too much.
Guy Hogan on Sep 30, 2009
royee, I think I’ll be okay but you never know for sure.
deep blue on Sep 30, 2009
That’s definitely professional. You’re my kind of Guy. As the saying goes, one at a time. Attempting to have everything will leave you nothing. It’s good to start from nothing and come up with something until you get to win everything.
martinpm on Oct 1, 2009
wishes for your new journey, i too, am on this new path of my journey wishes for both of us.
Guy Hogan on Oct 1, 2009
deep blue, multi-tasking is not for me when it comes to writing. I want to focus on Triond. Triond is my money maker.
Guy Hogan on Oct 1, 2009
martinpm, and good luck to you. We are all in this together.
WriteEditSeek on Oct 2, 2009
I came across a great quote from a freelance writer: “Write afraid until your passion replaces your fear.” I’m not sure, at least in my case, if it is possible to immediately disperse all the fear. I’ve learned to not beat myself up for being afraid, though, but instead to acknowledge it and write anyway. Thanks for sharing your insights about writing. I’ve started two blogs. I don’t know if I’ll keep them, though. It’s easier to make money on Triond, and the work on the blogs is time consuming and redundant in many ways.

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