26734804716_96351ab6e5_bThat’s a question that people ask me all the time.

Just kidding, that’s a question I ask myself all the time because I know deep down that nobody reads or cares about the fact that I blog.

But somehow, here we are, in the 92nd consecutive week of the Perspicacious Geek and prior to that I went 28 conscecutive weeks writing WTF World back in 2011. I usually aim at around 1000 words per article, which means I’ve written 92,000 words. I’m just 7000 words short of The Hunger Games you guys, except I have made negative money paying for part of our web hosting fees instead of millions of dollars in book sales.

Is it because I have a ton a free time on my hands? Not at all. In fact, just about every single week I am scrambling to figure out what to write about in order to not a miss a Tuesday. I would say that most weeks feature a moment where I’m sitting on the toilet thinking “this will be the week that I miss a blog”. Then I say “no sir” and write one anyways.

Anyhow, if you want to do a thing, here’s my advice. I assume this applies to all kinds of arts, but I only know how to write so that’s how we’re framing this.

1) Write For Yourself and Not Your Audience

Tracking hits and stats for a website can be a dangerous game. Some of my stuff gets thousands of hits, others hundreds and others only dozens. The thousands of hits thing happens once in a blue moon, with the right combination of key words and social media traction. It feels great, but it’s not going to be the norm.

I have a theory that no matter what measure of success you’re having, you still want the next level. I remember once back in my blogspot days I had 1000 hits in a month on my blog page. I was absolutely elated. That number nowadays would depress me.

I tend to take a look at the overall health of the website less and less often now. Why? Because it doesn’t matter and whatever number we hit will become my new high point and anything lower will bum me out. If we pulled 100,000 hits a month, I’d want 200,000. That’s just how it goes. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…