The Future of Collected Miscellany
The biggest motivation for me to keep this site going is the realization that social media and other distractions had undermined my ability to concentrate and f...
Tag: blogs
Blogging, Instant Gratification and Perserverance
Perseverance plays an important role in successful blogging. There will be days you don't feel like writing or don't feel like you have anything to say. But w...
The slow death of a blog
I also don't know if this is just a phase that will pass or if this is truly the slow death of this blog. But at some point you have to ask yourself is this re...
Wherein I complain about too many books, not enough time, and a lack of inspiration
Sometimes I like the idea of reading books and writing reviews more than I do the actual process of reading books and writing reviews. Sometimes I like just the...
Writer's Block, Book Burnout and Podcasts
I periodically get in funks where nothing quite seems to "work" for me and I find myself reading three or four books at one time looking for something that will...
Who do you write for when your audience disappears?
The sense that people were reading my reviews still felt like it was worth something. But when those visitors stopped coming it felt like that value was gone t...
Who do you write for when your audience disappears?
The sense that people were reading my reviews still felt like it was worth something. But when those visitors stopped coming it felt like that value was gone t...
statistics that may be interesting only to me …
Statistics that may be interesting only to me … (and by “interesting” I mean “depressing”) Comparing traffic the last three years:...