Morbid Romantic

Book Review & Personal Blog

This is a blogging meme for the Senior Project of State of Denmark.

1. How long have you been blogging?

I have been blogging for years, but the exact time frame is lost to me. I don’t remember when I started, just that I’ve had this particular website for almost eight years. And before that, I had other blogs here and there for a few years. So, I would approximate that I have been blogging for about ten years, maybe more.

2. Why did you start blogging?

I guess it just seemed new and interesting. The idea of being able to anonymously talk about my life, all of the problems and joys, was appealing. I wanted to be able to pour my heart out to people willing to listen. It seemed a better alternative to telling my secrets to friends and family. Since I am a restrained person by nature, I liked being able to just… talk without worrying about consequences. I also liked the idea of being able to make friends and join a community. Veiled by a bit of secrecy and anonymity, we would nevertheless get to become friends.

3. What have you found to be the benefits of blogging?

Tons of benefits. First off, I am able to be a member of a really great community. I have met and made friends with a good number of fellow bloggers who have brought wonderful ideas along with their priceless friendships. It is good to know that there is always someone willing to listen and lend some advice when you need it. If I have a problem, I need only blog it and hope that someone will come along and offer me advice. Blogging is cathartic, too. I can stress out and unwind, complain and moan, and not have to worry about someone taking offense.

Secondly, there is a monetary benefit to blogging. Once you establish your blog, you can get advertising and paid sponsorships. My websites pretty much pay for themselves with tons left over. While a grand might be a small amount in the scheme of things, it’s money that I got for sitting in a comfortable computer chair for ten minutes every few nights. It is essentially money for nothing. Naturally, I don’t use my blog for just making money, but it’s a nice addition.

4. How many times a week do you post an entry?

Multiple times. Whenever I feel like I have something to post. I have sort of stopped making personal posts and most of them center on books, reviews, or weekly memes. If I did just memes, I won’t post at least one entry a day. But since I do about two a day (give or take), I would estimate that my weekly post count is about 7 to 21. That’s a pretty wide difference, I know, but I don’t have a steady blogging schedule.

5. How many different blogs do you read on a regular basis?

My Google Reader is quite full with at least 50 different blogs if not more. A few times a day, I will flip through it and read anything that seems to have an interesting subject line. Sometimes I’ll just randomly select a few to read. I wish that I had more time to read everything and comment, but I just don’t.

6. Do you comment on other people’s blogs?

Rarely, which is something I need to remedy. I am not the biggest conversationalist in real life, so I suppose that personal quality extends to how I am in real life. I read, but then I don’t have anything to say. Of course I have opinions, but I’m the type to keep them to myself. In cases of comments, I like to reserve them for something important. Unless I have something to say that useful, I don’t want to say anything.

7. Do you keep track of how many visitors you have? Is so, are you satisfied with your numbers?

I’ve tried! I have tried trackers and visitor counters and everything else that I have found on the web to try to accurately track visitors. Problem is, most give incomplete numbers, slightly inaccurate numbers, or are too complex for me to be able to simply glance at. So, I have given up. It doesn’t matter how many visitors I get as long as my blog is read by someone.

8. Do you ever regret a post that you wrote?

Definitely not. Even though some of my posts may be mean, I still write honestly and from the heart. It wouldn’t be MY blog if I had to censor what I say. Now, I feel that some care and tact is appropriate, but I should be able to express myself and won’t regret doing so.

9. Do you think your audience has a true sense of who you are based on your blog?

Definitely not! They see and understand a side of me, but there’s a lot of me that I don’t share. For instance, I am passionately in love with Ancient Rome. Yet no one would know that just by reading my blog entries. My love of history is one of the greatest things that define me, but I don’t express that part of me here. Like I said, I only show one side of me and not the whole picture.

10. Do you blog under your real name?

No. I give people my first name, but I would prefer no one ever know my last name. Granted, I send packages out with my full name, but I don’t want it written here on this website.

11. Are there topics that you would never blog about?

Honestly, no. There are many topics I have yet to blog about, but that is not because I don’t want to or would never. The topics I have yet to write about are absent only because I haven’t felt the need to write about them yet.

12. What is the theme/topic of your blog?

Book reviewing and book promotion with a big of personal blog on the side.

13. Do you have more than one blog? If so, why?

I only want the one.

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