I respond well to humiliation. So when Deb from Missives from Suburbia emails me saying:
You need to blog tonight. I’m getting tired of nothing new when I visit.
Then I know it is high time for me to step up. I didn’t realize that the third member of the BoMR Club (Both of My Readers Club) would have such an affect. But I now know that I have a fickle fanbase that requires a subtle balance of rapid-fire repartee coupled with thought-provoking posts that linger like a lover’s scent.
After my last post about gaming, I assumed that I should let that one linger. Clearly, that was not true. My last post should have been buried below the fold, if published at all.
So thank you Deb for setting me straight. You definitely deserve a link-back! Brace youself for all the click-through’s to your excellent site. For those who do not know Deb, then you should definitely stop reading here and follow the link. Besides excellent writing, you should check out the labels she attaches to each of her posts. Here is one example from a single post: bill cosby, it’s only illegal if you get caught, mmm…hot dogs! How can anyone go wrong with that!?
This leads me to a question for BoMR: When you write a particularly thoughtful post, one that really stands out in your own head as something meaningful, do you try to let it linger a bit before you post again? Or do you simply post as the muse mandates? How does that make you feel knowing that perhaps 90% of your readers (at least my readers) never leave the top post?