I feel better knowing that successful bloggers like you have made the same kinds of mistakes I’ve made in my very short blogging “career” — and survived to tell about it! I just finished a marathon of transferring by blog because I inadvertently picked a name already in use. Thanks for sharing.

Joan
P.S. I also wrote about my start as a result of Sharon’s post: Why in the World Did I Start this Blog???

Technically speaking, it won’t be 19 months until the end of August. Your statement that I seem to have been at it longer is indeed a compliment — as well as a testament to just how much I’ve learned during my past year-and-a-half of blogging!

Thanks for the encouragement!
Jeanne

P.S. You seem to have come up with a handy way of gauging when it’s time to schedule a vacation! Perhaps the rest of us should follow your lead!

Spiritwealth, Read your story – every blogger’s worst nightmare. I can’t even imagine what that must have felt like.

Like you, I used the “ready, fire, aim” approach — just jumped right in. The only thing I knew when I started blogging was that I could write, that I loved writing, and that I wanted to share what I knew and loved about it with other writers. And now, here I am 19 months later, a little wiser about the ins and outs of blogging, but still learning, still at Orble, and still struggling to achieve some semblance of balance between blogging and “real life.” Hopefully, someday soon, I’ll find it.

Jeanne

It was interesting to read about how you got started blogging. My main reaction to it all is this: I’m glad you did!

Jeanne