My New Job

Two years ago (July 2006) I signed up on blogspot to give blogging a try. But, I am a fiction writer and so writing about my real life seemed boring. Therefore, I only gave the URL to a couple of people, and after six months deleted my posts. However, I decided to start over in February 2007, due to spending too much time on e-mail (many people would ask me the same questions and I'd find myself writing out long updates only to wonder if they even really cared). This time I gave the URL to most of my address book so those who were interested could check out my site and I could just focus on the people I e-mailed when e-mailing (which is more fun for me since I prefer reading about other peoples' lives rather than writing about mine over and over)!

I was really surprised with how many people visited my "online journal". . .and kept coming back. It turned out that during the next year-and-two-and-a-half months I became pregnant and had a baby, so I actually did have something to write about. Still, I was stunned when I kept learning of friends, acquaintances, and co-workers of family & friends who were reading my posts--people I'd never met who had bookmarked my site and were frequent readers. My blog wasn't public, but I began wondering if I should make it that way, as a friend of mine had a public blog and was actually making money off of her posts. By the time I concluded my blog in May 2008, I had written 470 pages! I knew that as a new mom I wouldn't have free time to waste anymore--and so I resigned from blogspot.

But, my personal blog continues to be online [update: it was removed on 9/2/09] and I keep hearing of new readers from people I know who are checking it out, for example, because they are pregnant and wanting to read about my experience. I'm still surprised by this, but it made me wonder--if I started a new blog and was paid this time, then it wouldn't really be a waste of time. . .right? I like the fact that I have my entire pregnancy recorded and it'd be nice if I had my life as a new mommy recorded as well.

So here I am, hoping that you will find something in my posts that you can relate to or take an interest in so that I can make a little $ while I stay home with my son who was born on April 18, 2008. Since I'm not pregnant this time I don't know how interesting my posts will be, but I am a new mommy who is also continuing to go for her dream of being a published fiction writer.

The more people who view my page the more money I get, so help me out and keep checking back, as I start posting my day-to-day life as a mom, a writer, and everything else that makes ME!

Thank you!