I try to blog every day of the week. Not because I always have good content to share, and not because I always have something to write about, but because I’m a crazy blogger who has given up a real social life in favor of being plugged into the internet.
So, when I take a break from blogging, this is what happens:
I end up alone in the dark, talking to myself like a madman, and trying to reassure myself that yes, it will all be OK.
I won’t ever stop blogging again. I promise. Just don’t leave me alone in the real world. It’s too bright and sunny for a dark, tortured soul like mine.
I pride myself on updating Raleigh Specials Tonight everyday. When I was going on a long vacation where my internet access was questionable, I actually paid someone to “baby-sit” my blog and update it while I was gone. Am I crazy?
You’re not crazy. Blogs and children need babysitters. Just look what happened in “Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead.”
Sometimes I’m like, “What the eff am I doing with my life?!” And then I try to shy away from the internet and my smart phones and…well, I end up like that little stick figure up there.
I share in your pain.
…I feel sad now.
Maybe if we all feel sad together, maybe we’ll feel slightly disturbed.
See??? You DO crave social media after all!
I crave blogging, mozarella cheese, and long walks on the beach.
I hear you can get blog topics from professionals for under $10 a month, Jay - don’t put yourself under pressure, man, when the cavalry is out there for you!
I am a professional! I’ve made $6.80 from this blog!
And why pay for blog topics when I can just draw awesome pictures instead of writing?
Maybe you could start a weekly service - Doodles Delivered Direct on Demand? Charge $9.97 per month (or $0.25 per doodley piece), and get 40 pieces per month of different stages of a cartoon, and you (as the subscriber) roll with it to make a whole new cartoon that no other subscriber will think of?
I’ll be an affiliate and sell that too!
I like that. I’m not an amazing cartoonist, but I have ideas that I can’t draw that I can sell to someone else to draw.
If I start this, I expect to see your drawings on your site.
I would stop, but I’m just too sad to write in a diary.