I don’t have a gigantic readership for my blog, and I don’t stand on street corners shouting about its relevance. Still, when people learn I’ve blogged 16 of the past 20 years, they’re curious and ask questions about the process. Here are the answers.
Answer #1 – I started blogging as a way to keep my writing skills sharp. It was 2004, and I’d decided not to freelance for a while. Blogs were a popular way to write without constraints, although the hourly rate for such writing back then was a big zero.
Answer #2 – Some days I wake up with the topic for the blog already in my mind; some days it’s a slog. But as ideas come to me I write them on a list. For instance, current items include the story of Doris Miller who survived Pearl Harbor only to perish in another attack, buttons vs. buttonholes and their implications, and sources for accurate information in today’s world.
Answer #3 – In 2024, I wrote 64,980 words. That’s the equivalent of The Color Purple by Alice Walker, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, or Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. Multiplied by 16 years, that’s 1,039,680 words.
And, no, I have no idea what tomorrow’s blog will be, although writing this one has reminded me of buttons.
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