Share Your Experiences…with the World

From my experiences, starting a blog is exciting, fun and a lot of hard work. Well, actually, starting a blog isn’t hard work, maintaining a blog is extremely hard work. Let me define maitaining: writing blog posts on a regular basis. This blog, From My Experience, started with lofty goals of being a resource to help other people by user and bloggers sharing their personal experiences in daily life situations. It hasn’t gone as I would have hoped. I have written the majority of the posts even when I had hoped I would only be kick starting the blog

Well, almost a year later and the addition of a monthly contest with a cash prize and I can say the results have been less than stellar. In fact I have less the 100 posts during the first year when I had hoped to average 4 per week. It hasn’t been a failure but not the success I had hoped for. Over time I have fizzled on writing, as I feel sometimes it is writing in a vacuum. It seems though that others are taking up the reins somewhat because I do get a few experience submissions every month. Time will tell if this blog can support itself and for now I am content to let it continue to live on. I’m sure some of the shared experiences have comforted others and some of the posts have caused a chuckle here and there. FromMyExperience.com averages about 70 visitors per day and appears to be on the rise I suppose it deserves another chance.

But as I said, keeping up a blog is hard and when the fire of desire turns to embers of apathy it is time to look for motivation elsewhere. And so with that I have started a blog (the easy part) and will be writing on it full time (the hard part) but it has so far been a labor of love and people are helping out with less prodding and it is a fun blog. It is called TopTenz.net and it is a site that features Top 10 Lists.

I invite and encourage everyone to visit and read through the bizarre and funny lists that have already been added. As with this blog, TopTenz.net encourages reader participation. If you have a top ten list to submit, please do. I will provide a link to any site you wish if the list is accepted. So far TopTenz.net is averaging 1,000 visitors per day and the lists are great fun to research and to write.

So while I’ll still be watching this site with great interest and posting every now and then, I will be devoting most of my efforts towards TopTenz.net. That doesn’t mean this site won’t grow, it will as long as people keep posting. Share and submit an experience, you won’t regret it!