My bestest friend Beth, (kid_lit_fan), always titles her stuff with song lyrics. I love that SO much, that for a while I found myself doing it without even realizing that I was copying her.
Now, in an effort to be original, I try to limit how much I do that.
I thought for a while that it would be massively cool to title my posts with literary references. This is cool on another, rather dorky level....Beth, while musical, is really the literary one of the two of us. And I, while literary, am probably more musical than she. I am at least more classically trained....where she kicks my ass literarily (just let me have my dream that A} "literarily" is a word, and that, 2} I am more musical, okay?)
But, literary references are a BITCH to come up with. If my post is about...say, friendship...there are a MILLION things that I could GIS to get a literary quote. And I found that it was just too much work.
I should work on my titles, though. One of these days (read: over the summer, now that there will NOT be summer session classes for Kimmaline) I am going to put actual WORK back into the blog...and then I would like to do some serious work on building up my readership.
I need to start writing down my really great ideas for real posts. I mean...it isn't that I don't write real posts now. The feedback I get is great...people used to always tell me that they really appreciated that I would write essays, and then about my life. Actually, all of the most successful bloggers seem to do just this.
But, as my "content" has gone to more personal, I have found that I am gaining NO new readers. Though at the end of the day I do write the blog for ME...I want the validation. I have just as sensitive of an ego as everyone else...actually...probably more so. :)
I like reaching a lot of people. I can't tell you how many times people have written to me and told me that I've put a face on disability. I am very candid about my crippledom...but I am a real person too.
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Now, in an effort to be original, I try to limit how much I do that.
I thought for a while that it would be massively cool to title my posts with literary references. This is cool on another, rather dorky level....Beth, while musical, is really the literary one of the two of us. And I, while literary, am probably more musical than she. I am at least more classically trained....where she kicks my ass literarily (just let me have my dream that A} "literarily" is a word, and that, 2} I am more musical, okay?)
But, literary references are a BITCH to come up with. If my post is about...say, friendship...there are a MILLION things that I could GIS to get a literary quote. And I found that it was just too much work.
I should work on my titles, though. One of these days (read: over the summer, now that there will NOT be summer session classes for Kimmaline) I am going to put actual WORK back into the blog...and then I would like to do some serious work on building up my readership.
I need to start writing down my really great ideas for real posts. I mean...it isn't that I don't write real posts now. The feedback I get is great...people used to always tell me that they really appreciated that I would write essays, and then about my life. Actually, all of the most successful bloggers seem to do just this.
But, as my "content" has gone to more personal, I have found that I am gaining NO new readers. Though at the end of the day I do write the blog for ME...I want the validation. I have just as sensitive of an ego as everyone else...actually...probably more so. :)
I like reaching a lot of people. I can't tell you how many times people have written to me and told me that I've put a face on disability. I am very candid about my crippledom...but I am a real person too.
Oh, and I write about shoes.