I wanted to know which topic would be most popular with readers. This quest – my quest, started with my first article, “Two Weeks With The Boys”.

Now a person interested in spicier things, might think…hmm…two weeks with the boys…that might be kinda’ kooky. At the time I hadn’t realized it sounded so…and of course, when the readers who do like spicier things, opened it up, they found it was just a story about spending time with two little boys. They were probably a little disgruntled (understandable).They might even have felt cheated. As I felt when it bombed.

How was I to know (a writing diva)? I chuckled at every wonderful quip that came from my keyboard, then all my wonderful, witty, quips dissappeared into thin air….The article wasn’t that funny or clever, as I had imagined (going by comments – of which – at the time, were zero). So I looked for something else to entice my readers.

I didn’t have any at this point (readers), but I wasn’t going to let a little thing like that stop me.

I decided to try a teensy bit more spice in the soup mixture (believe me I can add the spice when I try), and so I wrote: “Ten Things Not To Ask Your Husband While Having Sex” (loosely based on my life). While I didn’t get any chuckles from my husband on this one (maybe he didn’t like the wiggling butt thing, he can be such a kill-joy at times), it skyrocketed through the roof with my readers (one).

I know…skyrocketing through the roof is relative in my situation; believe me, I don’t compare my situation to Nora Roberts’, or Danielle Steels’ situation, their situation is – well different. I am just glad to see someone reading my stuff, let alone commenting on it (KristineScurry is my new best friend, although she doesn’t know it).

My next article was: “I Wanna be E-wealthy”. Get it…wannabe/wanna be…sigh, audiences can be so critical at times. Anyway, I have always been under the impression that, money and sex – not necessarily in that order (it depends on whether you get paid before or after), are all-time favorites with a writer’s audience – not according to my statistics – I didn’t have any comments at all on the money article…yeah, I know…but I only had these three statistics to work with.

Anyway, not to give up too easily, I then wrote: “A Funny Thing Happened On The Way Home From Work”. Reading it again (us authors read our stuff over and over and over to see what magic we have put on paper – at least I do), I didn’t think it was too funny, or clever, or whatever the hell I was thinking at the time. Maybe it was too short, maybe I should have had him have an affair with her, and then she could have killed him and…rambling.

By now, I was desperate, so, article number four was hatched-ahem-written: “Do You Want People To Read Your Writing?”. I knew the title would grab someone – it did. One. Ok…so you are not like me…sitting at your computer in your panties and bra all day, drinking orange juice, eating potato chips, cold pizza from yesterday and looking like you just had sex with your hubby (this would be where my husband would snort), at seven-thirty in the morning, writing articles; you don’t dance around in circles singing to your husband that someone commented on one of your articles; and you don’t know how choco-holic’s/over-eaters feel; wanting more….