gullybogan

Dear Reader,

I think i get it now.

They say that “writing” is

• 5% writing
• 20% editing
• 75% marketing

What i have to do is spend more time on marketing my blog, dear Reader, so that other ppl will come here and read it.

Other ppl than you and me, that is.

And other ppl than all those click-in/click-outers who come here looking for

• pics of Brooke Hanson nude
• pics of Shannon Tweed nude
• pics of Vanessa Hudgens nude
• pics of vegan hip tattoos
• that’s it.

Busting My Fameballs

I read an article in last weekend’s Good Weekend about this girl called Julia Allison, who made herself famous by annoying ppl on the interwebs. Then, when she’d gotten herself noticed, she started annoying ppl in real life, pulling stunts like turning up to A-List parties in dresses festooned with condoms, sleeping with the guy who invented Digg, and other demeaning things like that.

Apparently we bloggers call this phenomenon ‘fameballing’, cos your fame snowballs.

I must have missed the meeting where we decided that.

<aside>The weird thing is that i was quite by accident following this Julia woman in a Twitter ghost account that i’m playing with at work, without realising how famous she is. I’d stopped following her, though; she shitted me to tears with her name dropping (“…I can’t believe i’m sitting two chairs away from Sarah Michelle Gellar…”).</aside>

I studied the article carefully, and i have several things going against me if i want to fameball.

• I’m not female
• I’m not in my mid-twenties
• I’m not putting seminude pics of myself on FaceSpace
• I’m not writing a blow-by-blow sex diary
• I’m not sitting two chairs away from Sarah Michelle Gellar.

So i’ll just have to be happy with getting some more regular readers, and forget about the blog-and-tell book deal and movie tie-in.

Strategising

My first strategy is to be a little less autistic and start leaving more comments on other ppl’s blogs.

My second strategy is to write more (but shorter?) posts (even though i have a strong suspicion that most visitors to the front door only ever read the latest post).

My third strategy is to stop worrying about it so much.

The article said that to be a ’successful’ blogger (i.e one who gets brazillions of hits each day) i have to devote five hours each day to my ‘business’.

Thing is, it’s not a business. It’s not even a hobby.

I just *have* to write.

You understand, i’m sure, dear Reader.

Yours,
Gullybogan