RE: Consistency Is Key by ericvancewalton

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motivation · @ericvancewalton · Nov 5 '22

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I've had a few close calls with walking away too. Once was in the very beginning, before my posts gained any kind of audience. I shudder at the thought of how different my life would be if I would have done that. 

Writing can be so therapeutic if we stick with it. I never really thought about how similar blogging can be to journaling. I just caught the recent Hot Ones episode on YouTube with Cate Blanchett. She said that when she performs she imagines that no one will ever see her acting and this is how she gets through her fears and embarrassment. Good writing is very similar, I think. We have to forget about the audience and write for ourselves, very much like journaling.

👍 bozz

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@bozz · Nov 5 '22

Yeah, really good points!  I'm still not earning what I would have thought after close to five years on here.  I also would have thought I would have more name recognition by now.  I am doing better than most though, so I can't really complain.  I know it will pay off down the road and until then, it's just a good bit of fun and a nice creative outlet!

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@ericvancewalton · Nov 5 '22

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Thanks! I think you're building a nice, solid audience and seem to have a lot of genuine engagement on your posts. That will pay off eventually. The environment is really different here now that it was a few years ago. 

Communities are ultimately a good thing but they've changed the platform, fracturing the attention of the readership. Rewards and engagement are less focused on a small group of bloggers now and more spread out. It would have taken me many, many more years to build the audience I have if I would have started getting traction *after* communities were born. 

I really love this place. It's turned into more of an incubator/outlet for me now to test out ideas and make new friends (like you).

👍 bozz

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@bozz · Nov 5 '22

Yeah, that is a good point about the communities. I wish I could have gotten started sooner. I'd love to find a new topic I could post weekly about.

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