What is the name of your Blog?Alcoholic Poet's Sad Poems
What is your name?
alcoholicpoet - prefer anonymity
Where are you from? (include country, state and/or city)
NJ, usa
What is your current age or age range?
early thirties
Please describe your blog
Experimentations with prose poetry. Occasional verse. I have issues with complete sentences. Some things are genuine while others are fiction. It mostly examines the darker side of things because I think those are the interesting parts of people and relationships.
Describe the main purpose of your blogging, what are you trying to accomplish?
I just enjoy writing. Have been doing it since I was a teenager and never get tired of it. It's a way to challenge myself creatively. To have something tangible of my feelings to look at days, months, years later. To see how I've changed. For better or worse.
What blogging platform do you do and why?
I use blogger. I tried wordpress and the white/bright colors of the post interface were distracting. I think I've also tried live journal and same issue. Yahoo 360 is terrible. Can't customize at all. I had a kinda blog for several years that I made by hand in dreamweaver. But it's so much easier using an automatic method. Blogger templates used to be so easy to manipulate, even though now they're not. I liked that about them. I like that I'm always logged into it because of my gmail. Anyway I think I still understand the new blogger templates better than I do the typical PHP based ones of other platforms. Having my blog look exactly how I want it to is important to me because in addition to writing I'm a bit of an artist.
What do you blog the most about?
I mostly blog about adult relations. Not porno style or anything. Just mature interactions. And also addiction. Not just to drugs, but to other people. I think love is a rampant addiction amongst so much of the world. It's not really love, but that's what people call it.
What kind of blogs make you angry?
I don't know that other blogs make me angry. I don't care for republican blogs, but they've a right to express themselves.
Give five of your best blogging tips.
Write. Write. Write. and then write some more.
I hate it when a blog I enjoy suddenly goes dormant.
What are some things you would NEVER blog about?
I'd probably never blog about my job. Anything else is fair game.
Did you start blogging for the purpose of making money and if so, are you making enough money?
No. In fact my blog is the one website I tend to where I don't make any attempts at profit. So far anyway.
How long have you been blogging?
This blog about a year and a half. But if I count my previous manually coded blog since 2001.
About how many hours per day do you spend blogging?
30-45 minutes per night. Some nights maybe an hour to an hour and a half. I try to write most every night. But occasionally I skip one.
Do you track RSS feeds and if so, how many do you usually track daily?
I have a bunch on my personal google page. Maybe eight. And many more blogs in my yahoo bookmarks that I visit every so often.
Do you use Digg, and why or why not?
I've been there a few times, but never found anything that caught my attention.
Do you use Stumbleupon, and why or why not?
I see them in my referral stats once in a while. It seems like a good idea.
What promotional techniques work best for you and why?
I'm fortunate to know a little something about SEO. so i designed some parts of my blog specifically to get some decent traffic from the search engines. But i think link trades and directories are a great way to improve your hittage.
If you could post a blog on any blog in the world, which one would it be and why?
I'd love to be able to blog somewhere on yahoo about american politics, society and religion. You know, the way Michael Moore makes his provocative documentaries that make the whole country gasp. I'd love to be able to do that.
What mistakes have you made that you could warn others about?
I tend to write for myself. In my own little world. That doesn't generate a lot of comments. If you want input you have to write in such a way that people feel compelled to comment. You have to strive to make it about them instead of yourself. I can't do that very often, but when I'm able it can be very gratifying.
Many bloggers suffer from a severe lack of traffic. Put your topic in the title of your blog. Put your topic all over your blog. Search engines deliver traffic based on textual and linked content. If you don't tell them what you're about, they won't know.
What are your top five blogging site picks and why?
Waiterrant.com -- he can be a bit self-righteous at times, but he's a great writer.
RukSak - brilliant, bawdy storyteller when he makes the time.
Lonely Roads and Psycho Paths - she's a gifted writer and such a tender soul.
A Fraud Inking Muck - he's been lax lately, but when he bothers to write he usually does it quite well.
Give Me the Booger - she's consistently funny, a strong woman and a raging liberal.
Have you met anyone offline as a result of your blog?
no
Is Your Blog a True Reflection of Who You Are?
Yes and no. It's most certainly a true reflection of my ability to create. Whether you like it or don't, it's all me, every word of it. Some parts are true. Others are partially true. And there are posts that are total fiction. But overall, anything I write will be a piece of myself. Sometimes I will leave that piece naked and others I may feel inclined to dress it up in fancy clothes.
What is the url of your blog?
Alcoholic Poet's Sad Poems
