My Blogging Backround
From 2001 – 2008, I published a blog called My Back Pages, about my writing life as a poet/fiction writer/screenwriter who’d relocated from New England to Los Angeles.
Over the course of my years blogging, I was:
- One of the earliest Los Angeles bloggers, frequently linked to in citywide directories and meta blogs
- Described by a fellow blogger as “the only blogger writing about screenwriting” when he got started, circa 2003-2004
- Quoted and linked to by Boing Boing
- Excerpted by Slate
- Interviewed and photographed by the Associated Press
- Contacted for an interview by a national A.M. radio program
- Interviewed by MSNBC.com
- Voted to the front page of Kirtsy.com
…And a host of other little benchmarks of success.
My blog did not make me famous; I didn’t have a gimmick or game plan. I used it as a personal writing notebook, on which I made observations of my writing life, my culture shock adjusting to life in Southern California, and my reactions to the world around me.
What the blog did get me was some good consulting jobs helping other people set up and promote their blogs. Which is what I did, professionally, for several years during the blogging boom (2005 – 2008).
I took my personal blog down in 2008. The time was right to move on to other writing projects and to sever myself from the “quick fix” of internet publishing. Also, I got interested in Twitter. (I won’t say “addicted.”)
Of course, few addicts can stay away from their drug of choice forever, so I am publishing again. Here’s where you can find me now:
Tumblr — my blog about urban community vegetable gardening, exercise, and getting healthy
Twitter — me being me, publishing about whatever I want
