Merhaba Türkiye

 Readers in Turkey

A Thriving Blog

A Thriving Blog

This month, the blog has as many readers in Türkiye as in the UK. Showing the diversity of my posts, and their neutral stance on race, religion, and politics.

The secret to drawing readers is not to preach, once you start to push your beliefs, you drive most people away. This is something Sara Paretsky found, she is a good crime writer, but her characters expound her views constantly. I can vouch for this, I have read some of her work

Switzerland

 Journey into the Unknown

The life of a Blog

Before I get comments on this image, I know it is NOT Switzerland, this is a historic image of Greenland, why is it historic?

I took this photo en-route to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, in 2009. Less than a year later there was a massive volcano eruption which closed airlines crossing the Atlantic Ocean for weeks as the air filled with ash, this part of Greenland sank into the Arctic Ocean.

Back to the point of this article, today, the blog had some readers in Switzerland, this is the first time either of my blogs had readers there

The life of a Blog

 The ups and downs of a writer

Meeting a Deadline

I am puzzled by how many readers the blog reaches.

Most of this week I have not written much, mainly because I felt the posts were not being read, with some days not even reaching a dozen readers.

Some days, for various health reasons I didn't blog either, but yesterday gave me new hope for the blog; if only for a short time. The blog had over 500 readers, thanks mainly to readers in Singapore, and the USA.

As I never had a contract to write a story, the only deadlines I needed to care about were set by me. Years ago, when I was writing for three ladies I chatted to, I was writing a series of short stories each week, and one week the deadline came up, but I'd been ill for days, so they asked me to take a break, but I still met my deadline.