Comments on: Bloggers are Legit… Too Legit to Quit.

By: Diva Ma

Diva Ma — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:16:20 +0000

Thanks for the comment., buy the way. I blog simply because it gives me an outlet and because I love to write and express myself. I love reading other people, getting to know other people, and offering opinions. I’d love to become a writer one day. Always been a personal dream of mine, but that’s not why I blog. Not for recognition. For the love of writing.

By: List Mama

List Mama — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:59:00 +0000

I like you! Great post!! I just found you on Moms that Twitter at Mom Bloggers Club. I am now following you and look forward to reading your tweets.

Jen
http://www.ListPlanIt.com

By: terri

terri — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:15:33 +0000

Many who criticize bloggers have never read a blog, or at least not the one that shows why anyone blogs. Others consider it a threat.

Why do people ride bikes, jump out of planes or buy expensive toys that maybe they shouldn’t? Because they LIKE it and it makes them feel as though they’re accomplishing something.

Remember, those who can, DO! So keep on doing, because you’re doing it well!

By: Tropic of Mom

Tropic of Mom — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:21:59 +0000

Ah, there is so much I could write in response to your thoughtful post. “Blogging for nothing means we truly love to write.” I agree there. As a person who blogs and a person who also has been paid for writing and editing, I see both sides. Sure, if you are a writer, you want to get paid for your writing. It’s what you do. Your craft is worthy of wages just as a surgeon’s, say, or an attorney or any other person with a skill. But I think blogging is different. If you can get paid for blogging, then that’s great, but blogging about your life for free is fine too.

By: tcmom

tcmom — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:57:26 +0000

Back home and completely exhausted… but reading these comments has been a wonderful welcome back. No one should understimate the power of the blogging community. This kind of support makes the hours spent on this blog so very worth it!

By: Mommy of Mayhem

Mommy of Mayhem — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:48:29 +0000

I have missed you! You’re inside my brain again. As I’ve said time and time again, blogging is free therapy….I’ll never apologize for free s@*t! Ever.

By: wyliekat

wyliekat — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:31:28 +0000

It’s a new technology. It’s a new writing style, new audience, new sets of rules. Free or not free isn’t the issue to me. I think I’d like to make money at it, but I think I’d also like to have people read it. And if the choice was a or b, I’d pick b every single time.

However, I can’t imagine what would happen to me if I suddenly woke up one morning to thousands of hits on my site. In my mind, readership is something that will grow over years – people who are genuinely interested and interesting who just happen to read me on a regular basis. Not a sudden influx of random people. It’d scare the daylights out of me, I suspect.

Don’t know what any of that means. Just my two cents on blogging.

By: Clare Frederick

Clare Frederick — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:01:30 +0000

She was a nay-sayer, pure and simple. Don’t let ba-humbuggers get you down. Write because you want to, and leave everybody’s “issues” at the door. I like YOUR blog. I don’t even know what that lady is. :)

By: Mary

Mary — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:09:28 +0000

Awesome post. I think I’ll print it out and leave it somewhere that my husband can conveniently come across it. I’ll have to think about that whole mission statement idea, I like it!

By: azhita

azhita — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:24:15 +0000

Power to the people sista! Blogging is so NOT about the money, its all about the sanity (well for us mommy bloggers I’m sure anyways). You do not need to justify yourself to some crabby old lady. ;)

Love ya!