Tag Archives: BLOGGING

14th Anniversary

by Revis Edgewater

I got on here Wednesday morning to start writing my Friday post, and I was greeted with this notification:

Once again, I looked back on my journey on this here blog. It started off with me just posting random things, mostly about my life. Then, I left here for a while to post on a different blog. Eventually, I came back to post here, mostly about my fiction and geeky things, and have been here ever since.

How long will I remain here? That’s the question I keep coming back to when I’m thinking about this blog. There are times when I want to keep going, but the majority of the time, I feel like walking away. Either way, I did say I was going to post once a week this year and I always try to keep my word. So, you’re stuck with me for a little bit longer, at least.

I’m Still Here

by Revis Edgewater

As longtime readers of mine may know (if there are any of you left out there), I have an on again/off again relationship with this blog. Over the years, there’s been many times when I’ve taken breaks from posting. Sometimes, it’s only a week or two. Other times, like this last one, it’s many months.

The reason I took this latest break was that I felt like I needed to post on this blog. I know I didn’t need to, but I felt like I had to. Because I had that feeling that it was something I had to do, it turned something that should be done for recreation into work. Or a chore. Since I have more than enough of both of those things offline, I stepped away.

I stopped writing blogs. I stopped reading them. Well, regularly, at any rate. I still hopped on every once in a while to check things out, but there were usually weeks in between checks.

While talking to my writing partner Matticus, he told me of his plan to start posting once a week. I thought about it and figured I’d give it a shot. I’m going to steal his idea and post once a week, too. Hopefully, it’ll help get me back into a blogging state of mind. So, starting with this one, I will be putting up a new post every Friday. More than likely, they’ll just be about one of the questions that someone at work has asked about video games/comic books/movies/TV shows. I may change that up as I go along. Who knows?

I’m also going to try to get back into the habit of reading other people’s blogs, too, but that’s probably going to take longer for me to get to because I have a lot of things I’m already reading at the moment. If I don’t get to yours right away, I apologize in advance. If there’s a particular post of yours that you’d like me to read, leave me a link in the comments, and I’ll get to it as soon as I can.

Thank you to everyone who has stuck around despite my absence.

Spread the Love – Part 44 1/4

by Revis Edgewater

Today, instead of reading my (usually) nonsensical words, you should head on over and enjoy the ramblings of everyone’s favorite Bell Desk employee, The Hook. He’s real. He’s funny. And he’s so full of pop culture references that he sweats them out of his pores.

Check out how great his writing is by clicking here. And, if you liked that, imagine it in book form. What’s that? You don’t have to imagine it? It’s already in book form? Awesome! You can get it here and help support the writing dreams of one of my favorite bloggers, The Hook.

Spread the Love: Tres

by Revis Edgewater

Here’s another post where I tell you to go check out someone else’s blog. This time, I’m asking you to go to a place that most of you have probably already visited. It’s a place where frightfully wondrous things happen. You’ve been there before, right?

Rara, my dinosaur friend, is the reason I’ve done this NanoPoblano thing on the few occasions I’ve attempted it. She is an amazing woman who has nothing but kind words for everyone who meets her. More people should be like that.

Go, readers. Go and have some frightfully wondrous things happen to you.

Spread the Love: The Deux

by Revis Edgewater

Onto another post where I tell you to read someone else’s blog. That seems like it won’t help my stats at all. If I cared about my stats, that might upset me a little. Since I don’t, I’m going to tell you to travel on down to The Matticus Kingdom.

When you get there, you’ll meet The Jester, Matticus. He’s a good man, a good friend, and the best person I’ve ever published novels with on Amazon. So, not only should you go and visit his blog, you should also purchase his books (I’m pimping blogs and books at the same time. That’s what I call multitasking!)

Here’s a sample of what you’ll find over at The Kingdom.

And Then It Was Gone…

by Revis Edgewater

I was at the grocery store earlier getting stuff for dinner tonight. While I was walking around shopping, I saw something. What did I see? That’s the thing. I don’t remember. Whatever it was, it’s gone now.

I do remember that, at some point, I saw something that made me think, “I should make that into a blog post.” That’s when life happened. I had to put the groceries away. I had to go pick up Baby J from soccer conditioning. I showed Baby E what she needed to do when she moved clothes from the washer to the dryer. Then I decided to sit down and write that post I was thinking about at the grocery store.

But I couldn’t… The idea has fled into the dark recesses of my mind, probably never to be seen again.

I thought about it for a few minutes. It still didn’t come to me. This has happened to me so many times since I started this blogging thing. If I actually wrote every post I ever thought about writing, I bet I’d double the number of posts I have on here. Or, close to it.

Oh well. It sucks, but there’s nothing I can really do about it except tell myself that if the idea was that good in the first place, it’ll come back to me eventually.

Cutting the List

by Revis Edgewater

It’s a rare occurrence for me to spend much time on this blog these days. I pulled it up today in hopes to add a post on here. Not sure what to write, I pulled up the reader and sorted through the posts that others had put up. While doing this, I noticed that the majority of posts were written by the same five or six people. I felt like I needed to change this, so I searched for some new posts.

The first suggested topic was the word “comics”. I went ahead and clicked on it and read a few of the posts that popped up. There were a couple that I liked and I followed the authors so I’ll be able to go back and read a few of their older posts when I get a little more time. I also commented on one or two while I was at it.

After spending that time looking for new bloggers to follow, I went back and tried to figure out why my current “Followed Sites” list was so heavily occupied by only a few bloggers. What I discovered was that many of the bloggers I’ve followed over the years no longer blog. Most of them, in fact.

I went through my list and unfollowed any blog that hadn’t posted anything in over two years. There were a lot more than I expected.

What I was left with was a list of twenty-four blogs, two of which I started following today. Honestly, at first I was going to use one year as my measuring stick, but it would’ve left it at closer to fifteen. For some reason, having that few on my list bothered the hell out of me, so I left them on it.

Over the next few weeks, I’m going to browse through the various blogs out there and try to build my list back up. Even if I don’t post as often as I used to, I’d like to still be out there in the blogosphere, reading those who chose to put themselves out there for the world to see.