A Month of Blogging

I started blogging again with the single goal--which I doubt I was aware of at the time--of starting to write again. Blogging is writing, of course, but I hope that my blogging will springboard me to write other things.  Fiction, perhaps.  I'm hoping that it will end up being fiction.  So far, I haven't written a nonblog word.  But I'm just beginning.

In any case, and as a sort of review, I like occasionally to look back to see what I've done so far.  And here's what I see:

45 blog posts.  Not bad for a month (give or take a day).  I think I haven't blogged on a total of three days.  In all of the other days, I've managed to come up with something to include on this page.

The topics of the posts have varied somewhat, but the overall content revolves around music and music reviews, which led to Band Wars, a collection of posts reviewing new albums deathmatch style.  Of 16 bands that have released an album in the last 12 months, M83's Hurry Up, You're Dreaming emerged as the winner.  Fitting choice, I think.  I believe I'll be listening to that album on and off for years.

Aside from music, the other posts involved Plants versus Zombies, which I still play almost daily; TV reviews, in which I argued that the surprise death of Omar at the hands of a child was a fitting end for one of the best characters in television history; a few posts begging for online poker to return to the U.S.; a collection of random thoughts that I applied the misnomer "Philosophy"; a memory of a President shaking my 5-year-old hand; a reference to some other blogs that I like; a whiny post mocking facebook; and a picture of a fat man emerging from a porn shop.

I've added two followers, which is always good.

My audience, if I exclude the United Arab Emirates (which is probably just me reading my own blog), includes these top five countries:

United Kingdom
United States
Russia
Canada
Germany

My total pageviews, once again excluding the UAE, comes out to be 399.  About 12-13 per day.  While I'm pretty happy with those numbers, I only decided to start blogging again when I was able to answer yes to this question: Will I keep blogging if no one reads?

But readers > no readers.  They certainly motivate.

Thanks for all comments.

As for what sort of writing that I might move on to, I think I'd enjoy writing some kind of genre novel(s).  Fantasy, horror, scifi.  Who knows, really.  I can get pretty enthusiastic about some of my ideas, but the enthusiasm tends to have the half-life of a banana.  Pretty soon my "great idea" ends up forgotten.  Something to work on.