WriteOn Joliet does have a blog page.
We currently have two years of our "Writers Are Readers" blog that was my co-leader Tom Hernandez's passion project.
And we point to WriteOn member James Pressler's longtime and very excellent craft blog: "Writing and the Process."
So this member and I discussed possibilities and he hopes to talk "blog" at tonight's meeting.
That led me to check the BryonySeries' blog's all-time statistics.
I used to check those weekly but fell off that habit sometime between the COVID-19 pandemic and the fall of Twitter.
Now, I do keep an eye on the daily, weekly, and monthly statistics. But all-time, no.
Perhaps that's because getting writing seen is so challenging these days, whether it's my journalism writing or my blog writing.
At any rate, I looked. And I was pleasantly surprised.
Granted, the first blog was still on Aug. 1, 2010.
And I blog daily.
And some of those views might be bots (I'm pretty sure some of those views are bots).
But I took the screenshot at the bottom of this post approximately ten minutes ago. So these are my most recent numbers.
Yes, I'm not hitting a million anytime soon. However, I will quietly (or maybe not so quietly) celebrate that number when I reach it.
What helps is that I have so much evergreen content, that some really old blog posts still get views each day. So that helps a lot.
Now, this is a free blog. I'm not monetizing it or will ever monetize it.
Nor does the blog drive book sales.
So it really doesn't matter to me if I get three views a day or three hundred.
Because to me, the blog is part of social media. And social media, to me - still - is about connection.
Nevertheless, I really was humbled to see those all-time numbers. Most of them represent people who clicked through to watch a video, listen to a song, or read something I wrote.
Thank you so very much for connecting with me in this way. I am so very grateful.
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