hmm starting a blog is only battle started. how to attract audience is the major challenge every fledgling blogger faces. quite daunting. men/women are no bees to get attracted by the honey of a flower. but no writer worth his salt should give up or will give up. we are not chicken hearted though they may cock a snook at us.
first let me try with junior coleagues. ah. here is this boy who i should safely think owes me a little debt of gratidue. after all i have been quite considerate in granting him offs and leave. but how to nudge him? not so unabashed - as yet mark me - to directly cash my genorosity. yeah. here is the idea. how about asking a question or two on blogging per se? a good trap to lay. i patted myself and my breast swelled. not for me to put off action. i approched him. oh sir, i will read - enthusiasm writ large on his face - have u started a blog? oh let me see it.
huh i sat smugly. even before i could blink my eye, he closed the blog. what did he write? did he write at all anything? heart thumping, i opened the blog and found to my dismay a dry dreary "welcome sir."
next came a bonanza in the form of an univited blogger posting a comment - pl read it on the site - not going to reveal.
encouraged by this wiff of praise, i approached another junior colleague with better results. he really left a message which boosted my sagging spirits. again pl read it on the blog. He then asked me if i were writing a novel but writing on blog itself is novel for me ya.
but one swallow does not make a summer. and swallowing pride i will approach some more. not going to let my tilting prose wilt under indifference. i prod on.
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Ha ha ha ha.
ReplyDeleteLike a dizzying experience of looking into the pair of mirrors facing each other resulting in an endless series of reflections whose extent could not be absorbed just by nacked eye without support from imagination, which again is frustrating with its unassimilable experience of infinity, your blog seems to be self-reflexive, a blog about blogging on blogging.
You better start blogging on something other than itself before it is 'blogged down.'
But it is fun and similar to wathing Pauranic dramas or revisiting movies where nobody begins even the simplest of actions without offering a lengthy narrative of who he is.
If you are willing to prod on, you should allow this 'prodding into.'
lo! thought of attracting bees not a bee in the bonnet
ReplyDeleteYou can attract audience if you pull out a Page 1 ad in the newspaper you work for! Cheers
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