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Bloggy Question 19 — A Blogging Life of Fiction

August 20, 2006 by Liz

What Do I Owe You?

For those who come looking for a short, thoughtful read, a blogging life discussion, or a way to gradually ease back into the week, I offer this Blogging Question. This event really happened.

A blogger who wrote a personal blog about his life as a gas station attendant, who worked at a station across the road from a university in Tennessee or Kentucky, decided to stop blogging. He was a blogger with a following — 20 or 30 comments per post wasn’t unusual.

This blogger and his fans were a community. They shared inside jokes, histories, and details about their families. Some readers had planned to drive down to see him.

In the last post when he signed off, the blogger stated quite simply that everything he had said about his life was fiction. He was not a gas station attendant. He was a student at said university.

The blogger claimed his right to tell the extended blogging story in the tradition of fiction writers such as Samuel Clemens. What’s your response to this blogging fiction?

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Bloggy Question 18 — Suddenly You Have

August 13, 2006 by Liz

What Are Your Favorites?

For those who come looking for a short, thoughtful read, a blogging life discussion, or a way to gradually ease back into the week, I offer this Blogging Question.

Suddenly your blog has been discovered. All of the big names, all of your heroes have put you on their blogroll. You’re now looking at 26,000 links — individual site links — to your now famous blog. You’re number 1 on the Technorati Top 100. You have a Google Page Rank of 9, the same as Boing, Boing and Slashdot enjoy.

What do you do with this good fortune?

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Would You Change 3 Things You Think to Get to Your $Million Dream?

August 11, 2006 by Liz

Thinking smal-L —> B-ig Thinking

Everyone should have a dream, something they strive for, somewhere they want to be. What’s yours? Do you really want your dream or is it a romance and a fairy tale that you talked yourself out of a long time ago?

I’ve been thinking about dreams and goals. I’ve figured out that only three roadblocks keep dreams and people apart. All 3 are things that we think and what we do because we think them.

If I tell you what they are, would you change the way you think to chase after that dream of yours? [Read more…]

The 9 Rights of Every Writer — Peer Pressure Is for Jr. High School

August 10, 2006 by Liz

Can’t Stay in My Box — I Never Was Cool

I suppose if I were the savvy one, I’d wait until Monday or Tuesday to write this post. But I’m not. I’m the one who writes when the writing needs to be done. This post can’t wait until Monday or Tuesday, and darn it. It shouldn’t either.

The dialogue around the blogs that I read a lot and among some bloggers that I care about has been around one big question lately that keeps getting twisted and turned.

Do I write about what I know and want, or do I change what I write when I see big traffic come?

It’s time we talk about the rights of a writer. [Read more…]

Bloggy Question 17 — The Official Writing Book Discussion

August 6, 2006 by Liz

What Are Your Favorites?

For those who come looking for a short, thoughtful read, a blogging life discussion, or a way to gradually ease back into the week, I offer this Blogging Question.

A friend comes to you and says he wants to be a better writer. What books do you suggest?

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Check Your Writing Books

August 5, 2006 by Liz

The Official Writing Book Discussion

When: Sunday Night at 7pm Chicago Time — that’s tomorrow here.

Where: In the Comment Section at Successful Blog

What: We’ll be naming our favorite books on writing — how-to, philosophy, and every other kind.

It’s a great way to compile a monster list of writing books. Stop by be a part. Add your favorites to the list.

It’s our Bloggy question this week.

–ME “Liz” Strauss