I am having trouble with blogging.

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For the past six years, I have had a love-hate relationship with the blogosphere. On one hand, I love to write and I want a venue to express myself. On the other hand, I have failed to sustain a blog. I don't know how people do it. It seems that no one is interested in what I have to say, and also, I can't find the time to say it and say it right. It's so frustrating. I find myself actually embarrassed by what I write. I've started blogs with excitement, but found it hard to maintain them. I don't know how to overcome my blogging problems. I've looked for hints and techniques, but have not been successful. Perhaps I'm just not cut out for it. Who wants to read the rants of a Filipino-American gay Aspie living at home, anyway? I'm not Perez Hilton. I'm not that woman who blogged about cooking every recipe in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking. I don't have naked pictures of anyone. I don't know what to do.

Hardly anyone reads mine, I just do it cause it's fun. Just have a laugh with it. I don't always order my thoughts very well. Sometimes that's part of the fun.

The biggest task is connecting with the people who would want to read your blog, and then getting them to your blog; so where's the link to your blog? How should I know if I'd want to tread the rants of a gay fillipino blogger who lives with his parents unless I can read so; a ranting gay fillipino living with his parents seems like fertile ground for a humorous blog.

I've had the problem with not getting enough attention too. In the end, I've decided that blogging is just not worth it.

I don't care if anyone reads my stuff. I update roughly once a month with fairly comprehensive articles.

and hints

weird wacky shocking

or the TRUTH



use your gay and aspieness...

maybe cover gay events, with a certain blunt opinionated approach

contact gay newspapers and magazines

BOOM

almost nobody reads my blog either. But the few who read it like it and to me it's of way to vent and express myself. Is your blog link in your profil? I'm actually quite interested in reading about a gay fillipo aspie living at home

Whenever I'm feeling down, I start a new blog.... I think I had something like 10 before I started merging my more neglected blogs into my 2 main ones.

What helps build up blog readership:
1. Post daily.
2. Keep posts short and to the point. '
3. Use Google blog search to find other blogs that are blogging about the topics you are blogging about, and comment on them.
4. Believe in yourself.
5. Help other bloggers get noticed. (The Golden Rule at work...)

My main blog, The Lina Lamont Fan Club is about my life as a Gay conservative chaste Catholic and Star Trek/Doctor Who fan, with the added bonus of political rants and updates on my many cats. Believe it or not, some people have actually read it!

I'll be going over to your blog now (if it's in your profile) and adding you to my blogroll.

I stopped writing a blog about personal events. That's what FB statuses are for. However, I did start a blog on MMA to go along with my Twitter account about MMA. I even got an interview with one of the fighters on EA Sports MMA, posted it on there, and now it's very possible I could get a volunteer gig at an MMA site writing stuff because a radio host noticed it.

Can you tell I like MMA? lol