Hello-o-o-o-o...

I like to tell myself that I write the blog because it's enjoyable to me and it helps me unwind from work and life. And every time I'm convinced that I would do it whether people took the time to comment or not, I go through a period of time where I write posts that I really like and get nothing. Zip, zero, nada. No thumbs up, no likes, no comments. I see other new-ish blogs with large followings and I wonder what spark I'm missing on Busy Nothings. And then I start to let the Feel Bads in. They whisper in my ear "no one cares", "no one reads what you write", or the worst, "they read it and they don't like it enough to comment".

Ouch.

Sometimes it feels like it's just me out here in this great, big, cold cyberspace. Like I'm sitting alone in an empty room talking to myself.

Hello Carrie.

Hello Self.

And then Self and I, we talk about books and gardening and cooking and fashion and things that I want to share with people, and then we hit "post" and we wonder if anyone is going to read it. And will they like it? We don't know. But we hope so. And then Self usually slaps me and says, "no one is going to keep reading the blog if they think you're crazy - stop talking to yourself!"

Oh. Right.

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So that leads me to the point of this post - what is it that YOU would like to hear/read? What makes you go back to a blog over and over (and comment)? Is there a certain subject? A style of writing? Short posts? Long posts? I'm really curious to know because I would like to make Busy Nothings the type of place that people enjoy visiting, enough to say hello and then tell their friends about. So help a girl out and give me some feedback - what you like, what you don't like, what you love, what you hate, why you come back, why you only drop by occasionally...you get the idea.

You can be honest - if I don't agree or like what you say, I'll ignore it. {wink, wink}

And, thanks.