101 Reasons to Stop Writing

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This Month's Demotivator:

January/February Highlights

101 Reasons has been a little quiet so far this year, for reasons I’ve explained. Unfortunately, once the momentum from last year was broken, the reader commentary dried up like a sober poet. Only a die-hard band of compulsive commenters kept me from thinking I’d accidentally switched comments off.

Still, here are the posts which generated a tiny ripple of buzz in January and February:

(See December’s Highlights.)

 

6 Comments

  1. I’m still here, still reading. Various work-related activities have consumed available time so my postings have been few, including on my own blog.

    Congrats again on Spawn of Reasons, 4th Ed.

  2. It’s my fault.

    Every time I comment, it kills further comments.

  3. Hey, if you want, I can contribute a guest entry or two. I have a couple of beauts on indie bookstores and on writer’s workshops that have been rattling around in my head, and I’ll gleefully dig out and feast on the flesh of the living if you gave the okay.

  4. Actually, when Blogger switched over to the “beta” totally, my RSS reader stopped being able to pick up feeds at all. It was weeks before I realized that the one thing the bloggers who’d appeared to stop writing had in common was blogger. I know of at least two other people this has happened to, so it may be an unfortunate coincidence that you’ve been quiet and you’ve lost some readers due to blogger’s flakiness.

  5. Mike,

    We all know what you think about having >1 child!

    Laura, I don’t think it’s a matter of losing readers, but that I’m not provoking them to respond (present company excepted of course).

    I also think the problem is that I haven’t been responding to others’ comments as much. Heather, I’ll keep the ball rolling in future.

    Paul, you have to ask? Just as long as the headaches don’t come back.

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