I read somewhere that the only way a blog can be successful overall, is if it's positive and blowing sunshine and happiness all the time. ( Or maybe that was about Twitter?) I don't know WHY I read the blogs about blogging. I read blogs about blogging about blogging. Many of those people, whom write blogs about blogging on blogs -- are proponents of the All Positive All The Time Approach.
And, I stopped and thought about that for a moment. What if? What if I was a happy shiny unicorn of positivity ALL the time, at least while posting online?
There is no way that would fly now, after blogging pretty honestly for years, but, I suppose had I STARTED that way it might have stuck?
But, I would feel like a big fat LIAR.
Then I realized, many of those bloggers are blogging about blogging for CASH. Bingo.
I suppose if you START blogging simply to make money, you don't want to piss anybody off.
I was coached to drop my use of profanity a while back, "to be more marketable."
I was told that if I would simply not swear, I would garner a huge blog sponsorship and sunshine would fly out of my bank account. My reaction was, "What?! But that's part of who I am!" I am blunt. It just is. The conversation turned to, "Yeah, but... if you clean it up, success will follow."
I was asked to remove profanity and be a little softer, more ad-worthy, more... pleasing.
I felt dirty. Guilty. Naughty. Bad. Slap my wrist.
What did I do? I dug through the blog, and set up a word replacement. All ass-es were changed to arses! All fuck-s were removed! But, soon, I had a 'Life After Gastric BYPARSE' blog and Google cried. Let's just say I reversed it. The asses, shits and fucks? Stayed.
But you know what?
And 'promises' -- they are not worth giving that up.
MM cannot simply STOP being MM, though she can Orbit her mouth if absolutely necessary**, but will NEVER be Endorsements Only, Happy All The Time, Life Coaching For Losers, Lose Weight Now With XXX, Let Jesus In Your Life Or Go To Hell or any form of Rainbow Pissing Unicorn.
If you see that happen, please to know I've sold out.
**Name your price. ;)
