I’ll get back to the ‘spiritual series,’ probably. But at the moment I’m unsure about blogging as a pastime. The other day, reading online about blogging splashed me with cold reality. One article: ’10 Reasons Why Your Blog Sucks.’ My blog satisfies all ten. Other pieces discussed how AwStats overestimates traffic (a fact I’d already guessed, but somehow had deluded myself into ignoring until I saw it spelled out,) and how blogging is ‘so yesterday.’ Today, the trendy use Twitter and FaceBook. It figures that I didn’t start until blogging was already dying. No matter. In the past few days I’ve changed my outlook. The need for income presses, so I’m looking for what will pay off. Blogging let me try out different types of writing with little risk, and see if anything caught on, or motivated me to keep going. Nothing did catch on. But the writing all feels good to me, and I know there has to be some way to make it pay. In searching online for jobs, I see work in medical writing. Although many ads seek freelance writers of all sorts, some firms advertise for full time medical writers. Not that I want, or could even tolerate, full time employment. But if there are corporations hiring, there must be more work in medical writing than in some other arenas. It’s not what I most want to do. I’d rather share what I’ve experienced and learned in life. Recovering from child abuse and adult disappointments. Psychiatric fiascos, spiritual breakthroughs, and a few therapies that actually helped. But the field of self-help, motivational writing is saturated. Who doesn’t have a story to tell? My education gives me an ‘in’ to medical writing. Although many doctors are jumping ship and trying out writing and other pursuits, the field looks less competitive than those that don’t require a specialized background. So for the time being I’m investigating this route, and not blogging as much. By the way, if any one reading (if anyone is reading,) has suggestions for how to proceed, I would dearly love to hear them.
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