That’s great your college friend found you. Even if she doesn’t comment on your blog, it sounds like you’ll be able to continue to stay in touch via email.

You raise a good point. Some writers prefer not to have their work so “public”. Comments could seem overwhelming and many worry they may get negatives ones.

It’s great you have the confidence to put your work “out there”. A blog is a great way to get discovered as well as to have an online resume.

We’re both writers for the college paper by the way.

She checked out my blog. Instead of leaving a comment, she emailed me, saying my writing didn’t change at all – I don’t know what to make of that. LOL. But one thing that stuck to me was when she said she would feel naked writing a blog with all these readers commenting right and left the minute you hit the publish button.

Guess, she’s an old school kind of writer. We still keep in touch but through email and IM. Perhaps she finds the comment section too impersonal with all those strangers vying for my attention.
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Lol, I agree. our blogging friends often do know more about us than our real life friends.

With so many people not grasping the blogging concept, I have to believe blogs are still in their infancy, although some may beg to differ.

I have also found that most people I know don’t “get” blogging and can’t see why I would do this for no money. Even the ones who are supportive of my novel and my writing studies over the years don’t understand it. And my successes again, it’s not meaningful to them.

Like Jemi, it used to bother me, but it doesn’t now. Though sometimes I do get a chuckle from the fact that my blogging friends know more about where I’m at in my life than a lot of my friends and family. My blog has become the one place where I pour myself heart and soul.

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How wonderful to have a mentor, and a husband who supports your writing. My husband knows I love to blog, but he doesn’t understand the concept. Although he knows it’s a “blog”, he stills calls it my “blob”. Hopefully, someday, it will be a big BLOB.

I’ve never heard the 1000 miles from home concept. Just think, with a blog, we can do that everyday of the week.

What would we do without our cyberspace friends?