From where I sit the writing life is very much like working in a vacuum. Most days I feel like the ex-pat artists and bohemians of nineteen-twenties Paris must have felt, closeted away in their chilly garret, alone with only their thoughts and idle fantasies to keep them company. Like them, I wonder who’s ‘out there,’ or if anyone is as I plug away at posting mere words on the page. The writing game begins to resemble the SETI efforts of modern space-faring scientists, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence, the difference being that my search is in my back yard by comparison. Call it SIROT, the Search for Intelligent Readers Out There. Okay, admittedly I do get comments from Out There, but there are only so many pairs of Ugg boots I can wear at one time, only so many Fakely sunglasses I need, partly because the ones that slip through the spam filter and show up on my blog’s comment section aren’t prescription, and these days I have more lines in my lenses than Angelina has stretch marks.
So for all my faithful readers, all three of you, I’m asking that you pass this blog along, a shameless effort at self-promotion, but with a difference. In today’s post I’m blatantly asking for comments, real ones, not for more Uggs, thank you ever so much, but real feedback on what readers want and expect in a writing/promotion blog? Humor? Writing tips? Reading tips? Cooking tips? Links to a government website that actually works? I spend my days in my author’s chair, waiting, waiting…. Is anyone out there?