That said, i didn’t draw it. If i can ever do that, i will not be blogging but conducting commissions for others…

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yes.

Also, I loved the FS/N drawings. Very nice.

…and hell it’s a long comment, so let me read what u wrote. It’s only respectful for me to write a long comment in reply after what you wrote.

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And i am done with reading it. I personally think that people who think they are elites will eventually be hurting their viewership. No one should think they are elites or anything like that, because eventually, after being known around, it’s the writing that drives your readers. If your writing sucks and it will when you start having that form of elitist behavior, people will notice and move away.

As simple as that. I do not have much respect for elitists, both in real life and online. They are pathetic sad people whose egos have grown much more than what they truly are. I am not hesitant to say that and I always keep myself in check whenever I have that feeling. I am but human and sometimes think that way but I never forget to ask for feedback from my viewers and attempt to reply whatever I get with my procrastinating abilities.

Also, I have the same problem as you. I can start writing, intending to make it to a long post and poor alkanphel, my poor co-blogger has to tolerate my “OH GOD, I WROTE TOO LONG AGAIN!!!” comments after each entry. My poor buddies (they are also my real life buddies) are always suffering from my insane obsession to write so I know where you are coming from.

I personally admit that I do not visit too many blogs but I do try to leave a comment on a new blogger when I see one, since I believe that every inch of motivation helps, especially when you start up very recently. You do tons of entries with no comments. It is normal, i assure you because anime blogging is not a simple thing. It takes dedication and hard work for a website to grow, and this is not only for anime but for any site.

No one said it will be easy but it looks like you have the motivation to go. Good luck and give me a link when you are up. I will be your first visitor, ahaha~

This also leads me to the biggest advice, the network. If you have little friends, make an extra effort to participate with the community. Do your bit to comment, do your bit to do constructive information on blogs to gain friendship and networking. Professor Henry Jenkins, director of Compartive studies in MIT, said this wonderfully. The community online is a participatory culture. Get involved and you reap the benefits.

Cheers.

Heh I just stumbled across your news post (thanks to that one forum thread you mentioned), and I must say it is very informative, I learned quite a lot and certainly will make good use of a fair deal of your tips

I did already know that I must not expect too much in the beginning, since I just very recently started my own blog at blogger. It also sortof happened on a whim of mine to try to reduce my inactivity on the net, I’m a general procrastinator and lurker after all.
Well after a few days and only one anime summary I already felt like moving to ab, lol. I remembered all those fancy ab blogs I came across after some google searches and then thought, “that’s what I want to do”. Also, since ab offers a much better customizability, it would be the better choice to look more professional - the domain also sounds better than a common blogspot So, now I already slowed down on posting news… (I’m still waiting for my ab account to be set up ;_; it’s been 10 days now T_T) But I digress, as usual. Once I start I cannot stop >_< Anyway, to get back to topic, I sort of knew that I wouldn’t be able to attract many readers right now, as I’m a bloody newcomer that has yet to reveal himself (sic). I’ve experienced that certain newcomer feeling quite often, in many online (as well as RL) communities, like cs:s, wallpapers, fansubbing, to name a few. Entering the business and becoming famous on the spot is an impossible wish… Well Impz you gave an excellent explanation how to proceed to get there, yet there is something that makes me rebel a bit, something I have encountered numerous times: it’s nice to have a small expanding fan base but without the right friends it probably might never happen. Let me tell you my story at some wallpaper page, maybe you could better understand my point by reading this analogy.

So I start working on a new wallpaper, making process takes lots of time, hard work etc. I submit it, and wait for people’s feedback. I do little advertising around, even though it feels cheesy. So, it’s usually the few friends of mine who download it and add a kind comment to it. Some newcomers might do that as well, and say that it’s awesome. Very recently I was even able to receive a good rating (automatically based off the count of comments, favorites and views…). Of course it makes me happy to get those praises, they show me that my efforts were worth it. Yet still, there is almost never a comment from the elites, the seniors, those who have been much longer in that business who always produce high quality walls. Those people might as well give you real compliments or some good advice on how to improve, because it is a fact that once those people start giving feedback to a certain wall, the flow of comments won’t stop and you would become famous in an instant; after all, their feedback shows the community that the wall HAS to be something worth looking. But if those elitists ignore it, the community will view the wall as a regular wallpaper, they might download it but not comment on it. Noone will remember my nick and periodically check my page to see new wallpapers. I’ll remain unknown, and it’s definitely the worst thing you could have. That’s why it is a real privilege if you ever were to receive feedback from the elites. But of course, if you are friends with them, omg that’s an instant WIN no matter if your wall sucks or not.

And that’s exactly my point, you can write new posts in your own blog, you can waste all your free time on making your blog attractive. It is certain that a few random people might stumble onto your page through google search or some random link and will have a first impression - yet, if the page remains unnoticed by the elite (no offense to the blogging community since I don’t know anyone at all), many potential readers might not get the same impression of the blog than they would have if it was acknowledged by a fair share of the community. I’m not saying at all that everyone should effectively leave comments on every freaking news post on every blog page, but… having a higher-up back your motivation up would definitely do good for the popularity of each other, unlike in the example I mentioned earlier.

And yet it might only be an impression of mine, sometimes I even think I have an inferiority complex, I don’t have friends, I’m not popular, etc. But in most cases, I know it’s not an impression (very often it’s confirmed by other people I trust…).

Okay I ended up writing about 20 times what I originally had planned to, it took me like over an hour and a half to write all of this. But yeah I think I said it already, once I start writing I cannot stop, and I keep adding new ideas, reworking one sentence, deleting another, etc… Geez, ppl gotta put up with that on my blog XD (Maybe that’s the main reason I started a blog, to turn simple comments into full opinion threads lol)

So, thanks again for your long advice Impz Keep genki!
~neko

PS: In the meantime I already got a mail from Maestro, Gmail notifier says the subject is “Account Setup!”… YAY XD

@nekosasu: I am glad that it is helpful and do tell me if it will prove useful when you do start up a blog in ab.net. I will definitely be there to visit you and Maestro is currently in some pain. Hence he has been unable to process your application to ab.net, so do wait a little, all right? Cheers and trust me, it is so easy to burn out but hold on and see the light later.

Cheers and enjoy.

I did already know that I must not expect too much in the beginning, since I just very recently started my own blog at blogger. It also sortof happened on a whim of mine to try to reduce my inactivity on the net, I’m a general procrastinator and lurker after all.
Well after a few days and only one anime summary I already felt like moving to ab, lol. I remembered all those fancy ab blogs I came across after some google searches and then thought, “that’s what I want to do”. Also, since ab offers a much better customizability, it would be the better choice to look more professional - the domain also sounds better than a common blogspot So, now I already slowed down on posting news… (I’m still waiting for my ab account to be set up ;_; it’s been 10 days now T_T) But I digress, as usual. Once I start I cannot stop >_

Also, about content, I’m not that great when it comes to english and grammar, but I can get my point across. What’s the purpose of writing a grammatically correct blog anyhow? People want news and such, not perfect grammar and sentance structure. If they can read it and it’s good, they’ll enjoy it.

Please, check out my blog over at Anime Alcove and give me some suggestions. I’ve only had it about 4 days now, but I’d say I’ve got quite an array of posts, even if some of them are pretty short. I’m also still new to the blogging world and I’m still teaching myself all the coding that big blogs like random curiosity and you use. I just need to figure out how to categorize with blogger! LoL

Impz: I think so too, though I can actually tolerate seeing a paragraph go on for at least ten lines. Five entries per month does make sense. Oh. I’ll probably end up making something similar to this post. XP

Alkanphel: yeah, five seems like a number in which one does reach a limit of staying with one subject before wondering when will the next one come up.

I did it, so i knew it was wrong. duh. Go die. kekekeke