Comments on: Guest Post Tuesday: Rol

By: jewels

jewels — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:15:39 +0000

I love your style as well, I am going to go read some more!

By: Maureen

Maureen — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:29:32 +0000

Exactly… when you write for yourself, your style clearly shines through. And I love your style.

So now I am off to read your blog too.

From one of the “generous, gorgeous, and intellectually-superior readers” here who still suffers from CE, but is trying to get well.

By: Rol

Rol — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:33:53 +0000

Thank you all, I promise to do my best to make any new readers lose interest as fast as I can. (Another post about Spider-Man should do that.)

Grandma - you obviously never find yourself with a desperate need for Clingfilm at half past 8 on a Saturday night. I’ll try not to delay you again in future.

Rol’s last blog post..Moonlighting

By: Grandma

Grandma — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:19:52 +0000

We must shop in the Co-op at different times, I rarely encounter a queue and the ladies are always helpful and only get uppity if there has been some bloke in before me moaning about the lack of stock and the wait to be served. I’m off to check out your blog now too.

By: Ed (zoesdad)

Ed (zoesdad) — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:25:29 +0000

I gotta say, I liked it.

Ed (zoesdad)’s last blog post..It’ll Be Earth Day Tomorrow, Too

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:22:56 +0000

Writing for yourself is paramount. Very cool post Rol. Nice to meet you.

By: Arjan

Arjan — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:43:32 +0000

you are one hell of a tricky person. Not only did you trick me into commenting here, you also made me check out your blog..and probably will trick me into adding it to my feed list.
Comments are nice, but I sure as hell blog because I like to blog :)

Arjan’s last blog post..Sunset taken from the Saffierflat 13-04-2008

By: Rol

Rol — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:37:39 +0000

Honestly, if you’re going to go to all that effort to write a guest post, you’d think you check it through for typos before sending it off…

Rol’s last blog post..Moonlighting

By: Xbox4NappyRash

Xbox4NappyRash — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:11:03 +0000

“a writer’s best work always comes when you write for yourself”

AMEN!

Xbox4NappyRash’s last blog post..Ellie

By: Reluctant Blogger

Reluctant Blogger — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:54:43 +0000

I didn’t think it was trivial at all.

It does always seem an odd thing to blog about blogging but then again it is a subject that everyone who reads has some experience and thoughts on.

Recently I have been suffering mild (sometimes wild) blogger unease. I am not too sure why exactly but some of it is down to the points you raise in this post:
1. Because I have been writing request posts and have in a sense lost my own voice and also because I am writing on request I have been thinking rather too much about what my readers think, rather than just writing. I do, as you say, write much better when I do so for myself and I have not been doing that.
2. Comments. I have come to care just a little too much about my comment quota. I could of course switch my comments off for a while but then again people might feel offended. I love to get comments but I don’t want what I write to be influenced by commentability or my perceptions of what others think. I am also prone to making smartarse comments in other peoples boxes! Just can’t help myself sometimes!!

Anyway, what you wrote today gave me a little clarity about what I had been thinking and I am going to try really really hard just to write for myself from now on. Well, as soon as I have written my final request post which I will do today or tomorrow.

Reluctant Blogger’s last blog post..Cool Book Meme