I Want to Just Give Up. - Comments

@ mk ultra
Sometimes I just feel like if my writing was good, people would be more compelled to want to share it, and it would be in front of more eyeballs. I do want to re-vamp my web site a bit and change up the layout of the blog so it's less...directly blog-like, and maybe have separate pages for my poems and my blog posts, but that's going to be a summer project. I don't like using Tumblr for my poetry, though, just because it's easy for people to change things or erase original attribution.

@ Alex Moore.
I'm not going to give up. And for the most part, I do write poetry because it's what I want to do, but I also want what I love to be part of my career, and I'm trying to get to the point where I can make a supplementary income on my writing. But that can't happen if I'm not getting views.

@ Join the Masquerade
I do notice you're one of the few that actually does comment on my poems, and I can't tell you how much I appreciate it. =) It shows that there's someone who's interested enough in what I'm writing to want to keep up with it, which I thought would be the advantage of sharing my poems in blog format, but if this proves to be ineffective I am going to do a lot of renovations to the web site so that's something to keep in mind for this summer when I do that.

@ lily hughes.
It is a lot of work. But...I don't want to do it only for myself. I mean, yes, I want to write because I enjoy writing, but I also want to make a supplementary income on my writing, and to do that I need views. Furthermore, I believe art means nothing without an audience--it's not until art reaches an audience that it can make any kind of impact, and I want to be able to make that impact. I want to be able to use art as communication, but sometimes I just feel like I'm sitting alone in a room talking to myself. I definitely appreciate the encouragement, though. Thanks. <3

Doooooooooon't give up!!

Look, it's tough for everyone these days. I think it's much easier to be a theoretical physicist than a writer: it's a lot of work and you know that first hand!

But at the end of the day, you really ought to be doing it for yourself and yourself only! If this blog brings you down this often, quit it, really, because it's not worth it.

You're destined for greatness, never forget that on your bad days! ♡

I try to read your Mibba blogs and the links you post as often as I can. I think I missed the last one... But I enjoy your writing very much.

A blog is perhaps a hard format for writing poetry and the odd article and gaining readers? I mean poetry seems hard to gain readers for in the first place. I've seen blogs like that work but usually for something specific, like a lifestyle blog, or a gardening/cooking/vegan blog. Something that has an online audience where people are looking for blogs to read other peoples' experiences with it, and less with things like depression and such... Things thay are harder to write about and where there are so many different places people want to get their information from.

Please dont give up. Writing should be something you enjoy doing, and as much as I understand the frustation of limited feedback, try to see writing as something you do because YOU like it. Because YOU enjoy it.

What helps me is co-writing. Having someone to talk about plotlines, wording and grammar is amazing. It keeps me going. Maybe it's something to consider?

I highly doubt it's because of the quality of your writing. To be honest, I just don't know if blogs are the format where people look for reading poetry and original writing. If anything, I think that focusing on the tumblr account would get a lot more attention since more people use that and it's more popular. Don't give up! Also, maybe you could put your writing in zones and sell them on etsy?