More Time To Blog: HA!

When I embarked on this latest chapter of my wine-writing career--that is, being a free agent rather than a magazine staffer--I optimistically announced to readers (and to myself) that I would now have more time for blogging.

As if.

I quicky discovered that without a regular paycheck, I would have to hustle to pay the bills. Pitch, pitch, pitch! Thankfully, I've had plenty of people come to me with offers of work, which has kept me amazingly busy--and as a result, kept me from spending my time on Ye Olde Bloge. (Write something I'm not getting paid for? You gots to be kidding!)

I think that's the trouble with professional writers having recreational blogs: When you spend your whole day writing, it's not always that thrilling to sit down at the end of the day and write some more--and it's even less motivational when you're doing it for free. The most avid wine bloggers, I've noticed, are people who don't spend eight hours a day writing about wine. Go figure.

Of course, the bonus of blogging is that you don't have to pitch your blog topics to some editor, who may very well reject them and crush your pathetic little dreams. You can be as controversial/goofy/irreverent as you damn well please.

Don't think I'm giving up on the blog, though. I've just returned from an amazing winery tour of Western Australia, where I collected plenty o' blog fodder. (I not only saw kangaroos, I ate 'em!)

Stay tuned, patient readers! As soon as I deal with these deadlines...

Comments

[Tom Wark]

"Of course, the bonus of blogging is that you don't have to pitch your blog topics to some editor, who may very well reject them and crush your pathetic little dreams. You can be as controversial/goofy/irreverent as you damn well please."

This is, of course, the fundamental difference between a writer and a blogger. In fact the talent it takes to pitch a story and get it accepted by an editor may just be more substantial than the talent needed to write the story itself. And this is why there are so many bloggers, and so fewer writers.

Ouch!!! That's gonna sting when I read it back later on.