Incipient Insult

    Many blogs are doomed by their first post. From personal and indirect experience with failed blogs, there are a few reasons blogs never make it past “GO”.

1. Bloggers doom themselves with overly optimistic expectations.

2. Novels begin to seem a much better way to get famous quickly.

Once upon a time, on a dark and stormy night, in a land far, far away, in the best of times and the worst of times, there was a potential blogger who really wanted to make it big; but something was off... her laptop. And also her over-the-top-cliche radar.

3. Many don’t have any sort of inkling of what they would like to say beyond the fact that they want to write a blog.



4. Blogs tend to be a lot longer than facebook statuses.

Post One: I saw a cow walking up the road today as I drove home.

Post Two: David Archuleta is going on a Mission!

Post Three: Love comes at a heavy price... but that only reflects its true             value.
Post Four: Isn’t Comic Sans a great font?

5. Perhaps the most important reason: Most bloggers don’t have the rapier-sharp wit required to keep the kind of broad audience that we do.

(The only follower right now happens to be me)