I’ve sometimes been tempted to take that approach here: pick up on other people’s subjects and comment. But I’d rather have less traffic and do my own thing, to be honest. That said, it’d probably be a different story if I relied on ScrawlBug for any kind of income at all.

Then again, you cannot begin to imagine the annoyance when I catch something early, blog about it – and see no comments or anything. Six hours or a day later, someone ‘famous’ blogs the same thing and it’s all over the social networks. It just comes down to having a following, not being particularly creative or innovative all the time.

If one day this blog had a significant following (it’s currently around 50 hits a day), I would hope I’d be able to use it to direct those people to other useful and interesting places. Such as publications by folks who don’t have a rabid following.

While I think of it, you should drop in on George, over at Tumblemoose. He has a children’s writing section, is a GREAT guy and often has guest posters. You never know, it might turn you into an International Man Of Mystery. Or something.

I can’t take the time to deal with everything all the time. Writing a story every day, coming up with a topic, etc., is an extremely cumbersome part of creating a blog. And, you do need that daily or near daily contribution on a blog to really get that audience that you’re looking for. Would it not also be possible, then, to use the topics that are on other sites, rewrite them, and post them on your site? If you want to post the occasional article yourself – perhaps 2-3 of them per week, you’d add that as well. It seems to me that doing this would have some positive results. I’m a busy person. I also like my ‘down time.’

I’m quite aware that what the preferences or the ideals are, but do we really exist in an ideal world? As I get older, I come to realize that I simply can’t do everything, and I can’t afford to pay everyone either since I haven’t pulled in a profit from my current efforts. Whatever money I make from these books I’m working on will just be recycled into other projects. But as it stands now, I work a job so I can pay other people’s salaries, the rent on my office, and the costs associated with running it. I have no guarantee that it’s going to work either.

Anyways, I admire the people who learn to put together a workable website using whatever means they can. I wouldn’t be all too sure on how to do it myself.

For rewriters out there, I imagine such a tool really helps.

It does not suit me at all, however.