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It’s kind of serendipitous that I would come along to read this today of all days. Today happens to be the fourth anniversary of the day I put my novel writing on hold by taking up political blogging. Four years ago today, I started by writing a screed identifying the differences in rules between Bush and Kerry in the just-ended presidential campaign. (The point I’d made is that, as the “incumbent”, Bush knew the media would spin, ignore and whitewash for him whereas Kerry had to factor the media into his campaign strategy.)

Since then, I’ve started two other blogs and political/social blogging has taken over virtually all my spare time. I put on hold a novel I’d started just over 10 years ago and got obsessed with politics.

I estimate that in the four years I’ve been blogging, I’ve produced enough words to fill roughly 4 full-length novels. The learning curve is high especially if you’re a newbie as I was and I’ve educated myself in the legislative process, constitutional law, US history, presidential lore and the ins and outs and dos and don’ts of blogging. I don’t apologize for educating myself.

But, still, I have to ask myself what is it all for. I’ve gotten maybe a handful of people to sign petitions and donate money and doubt seriously if I’ve ever influenced a single vote. Sometimes it’s like beating my head against a brick wall or shouting down an empty well because I’m so passionate about our democracy, gay rights (especially gay marriage) and the direction our nation had taken these past 8 years.

But still, I had to ask myself about my priorities many, many times. I entertain and perhaps edify people whom I’ll likely never meet. I’m still amazed that I was able to write and revise my novel American Zen (any word as to the status on that, Miriam?) while working a fulltime job and spending some days over eight hours a day reading, researching and blogging. After four years in the good fight, my third and current blog has never once cracked 2000 hits and some days I get 200 or less.

Hell, look where I am now.

Perez Hilton? Oh, Miriam, how could you? What’s so addictive about a guy who badly photoshops jizz on the faces of actual celebrities who have actual talent and outs gay people for the hell of it? I’m reasonably certain that God did not create silicon so we could make Kato Kalen-type celebrities out of organ donors like Perez Hilton.

Take it out. I so agree w/ you that Blogging is addicting – http://bachelorlove.blogspot.com

My name is Michelle, and I too am powerless over blogging. Writing mine, and reading the blogs of others.

One of my favorites blogs is The Pioneer Woman,found at:

http://thepioneerwoman.com/confessions/

Reading it makes you feel good.

Twitter. Yes.

sarazarr.com

Blogging provides so much diversion: in an hour, I can connect with a Navy wife in Nagasaki, a housewife in Scotland, a medical student in Malaysia, a pretend gorilla at Oxford — even an agent in New York. The only problem is that blogging does become addictive, and sometimes you have to force yourself to get up and walk away from the computer — to go out and live a life that isn’t sedentary and vicarious. And blog addicts can’t get after their kids for spending all their time on Facebook and YouTube.

i'm a bit of a recluse, and what little social i do is usually via the net, and the blogs i love the best are these amazing, intimate windows in other people's living. The gorgeous writing at http://www.herablehands.com, Jason Mraz's blog at http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&friendID=4818814, http://thepioneerwoman.com/ and her endless chat about ranch life with her kids and ridiculously good looking cowboy husband.

and on twitter, dipping down into one another’s day-to-day living, 140 characters at a time, a small taste of ambient intimacy from The Now. Such as:
· woke up at 2am last nite, opened curtains to let moonlite wash over me while i went back to sleep til 5am. moon tans r luscious.

blogs are layers of living that you'd never ever be able to see otherwise . . . and google reader makes it all so dang organized. which is how i keep up with your own blog