Showing posts with label validation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label validation. Show all posts

Tuesday, 18 June 2013

Hitting 1000

Apparently, most blogs have an average of  less than 1000 views monthly and lots of writers give up blogging and become disillusioned.  Perhaps that is connected with the fact that most writers need some form of validation, be this publication or readers, or some other form of recognition.

I can understand this and there are plenty of times I've nearly given up.  However, looking back to the time when I set up the blog, when I had about 10 views a month, and to the present time, when I average 1500 I do feel that the hard work is worthwhile.  And above all, I enjoy blogging.

Below are links to some great posts about writing and blogging.  I especially enjoyed Nathan Bransford and his observations about writers and vlaidation and striving.

http://blog.nathanbransford.com/2011/02/writing-striving-and-great-gatsby.html

Tuesday, 13 November 2012

Validation

Social media buzz.
Proof.
Validation.
Numbers.
Figures.
Likes, followers, fans, re-pins, tweets etc.

There for all to see. Evidence of success and popularity.  If your numbers are low,  you are not just a failure, but a public failure.

The emotions this taps into take me back to being at school.  Specifically in the PE lessons, when a popular student is asked to select a team for netball/hockey/whatever and you are one of the unchosen, the kids they don’t want because you are rubbish at PE/a loner/different in some way.  It’s a popularity thing.  Interesting psychology, from every angle.

Does good = popular and popular = good?  Are sales figures a valid measure?

People need to know you’re there, that your book exists in a vast ocean.  
Invisibility.  Discoverability.  The twin evils of indie publishing.