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Today I’ve been asked to participate in a ‘advice to new bloggers’ post. I’m not going to say it feels strange, or ‘surreal’ (yuck). It feels somewhat fitting — not in an entitled kind of way, but rather in a ‘now is the best time for me to do something like this’ kind of way.
Why?
While I have no plans of ‘retiring,’ I’m not being as productive anymore. I’ve posted less and less (relative to my preferred publishing rate of every other day). More so, I feel that the community is different; that it’s passing me by. The writers I love to read are no longer writing (if so, it’s much too seldom when they do).
Even on twitter, where I used to chat up so many people, I’ve been rather silent.
There are newer people, that in my lack of time and energy these days, I’ve not been able to get to know as much as I’d like. The community is really theirs now. It’s funny how I can feel like a relic after only writing for a little over a year, and lurking for barely two.
I want to be clear that I’m not complaining. I am very lucky to have enjoyed all this warmth and reception from so many different people — readers and contemporaries. I’m lucky to have gotten encouragement from my own blogging heroes. I would very much like to pay the favor forward.
Basically, now may be the last time for a long time (until perhaps never) that any advice from me about blogging will be of any value to a newcomer. So yeah, I’m very honored (and lucky) to be asked to participate in such a post.
