The Struggling Blogger

Yet again, this blog has been disapproved as an affiliate by one of those who paid bloggers for blogging about their advertisers. Too much struggles… being true to its name. Oh well, I can always try again… and look somewhere else.

But I’m blogging about it cause some reasons for rejection are quite puzzling to me.

1. Blog is too new and has poor stats, including little traffic and/or links.
I guess, three months is relatively new as far as blogging is concern. Too little traffic and links… too techie for me… got to work on that traffice though.
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These last few weeks I have been active in my blogging. In fact, I think I have blogged like crazy. Trying to maintain five different blogs with different theme for each, actively. Consciously making an effort that not one of these blogs will be left behind. I guess I have even surpassed my projected 5 posts per week.

What I have done may not be that much for more active bloggers, but as far as I’m concern, this is way over my personal expectations. All these because all this time I have been unemployed. Yes! All the while I’ve been without a compensation. As to how we have managed or survived all these times is nothing but miracles. It’s not because I don’t want to work or anything. In fact there were number of times I attempted to get employed, but I was unfortunate that I don’t get hired. Hence the name, The Struggling Blogger.

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I can’t even say if this is an original or I just heard it from somewhere… I can’t remember. But I think we all know what this means. An addiction to blogging. I don’t know which is more intense, obsession or addiction… or they could be just play of words and could actually mean the same.

Blogus addictus, trying to sound scientific, can either be a noun, a verb, an adjective or an adverb. It tells a state, an action, or a condition of a blogger wherein even before finishing his current post is already thinking of his next post.

Much more than just creating numerous posts, but the act of posting itself that drives a blogus addictus. And whenever he is not in front of his computer typing, he is either scribbling on a notebook or a piece of paper… or he maybe just seated in a corner, silently playing in his mind the words that he will write on his project.

Just like an itch… it won’t subside unless it got itched.

Is it curable? Definitely, it is!

But does a person with blogus addictus wants to be cured?

Yet another blog… Is this really necessary? Why must I create another blog to maintain? To be honest, these are the questions that I even ask myself. If I really needed another blog. Aren’t my four or five previous blogs enough?

I started blogging way back in 2004 with just a single blog. Just to create an online version of my REFLECTIONS, it was a notebook where I wrote all my poems since I was in college from who knows when. Although the online REFLECTIONS didn’t have just poems, it contained essays too. It became another medium of expression for me. Not just for my poems, but also for my feelings and thoughts that I can’t contained in verses as well.

Soon, I found out that I can’t write everything in my REFLECTIONS. It was too personal a blog for me to post just anything that wouldn’t represent a sentiment nor an emotion. So I created another blog for another topic… and soon another one… and then another one.

Different blogs, different niche… in my effort to find my forte, audience, and inclination. I don’t know if this would be the last one, because if I want to write a new topic and I can’t find where to post it in my blogs, I may just create another one.

And so the story continues…