Comments on: This blogger ready to jump on next big thing

By: Sherri

Sherri — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:29:32 +0000

I'm on SheWrites, too, but it hasn't really caught on with me. I'll go find you and we can be friends. I know most of my commentors are on Facebook, but I also feel a responsibility to keep the readers who don't comment, so I don't know. I also like the idea of having something exclusively mine. Right now if you google Sherri Cornelius I'm the first three entries, and that can't be a bad thing while I'm trying to impress a publisher.

By: marta

marta — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:39:33 +0000

I read somewhere else that blogging was old. So what does that mean? I wonder how much longer I could have anything to say, but I can’t think of anything else–and I don’t want to lose touch with the people I’ve met through blogging–like, you know, you.

I took a look at tumblr and am not sure I see the difference exactly or if I’d want to ad yet another thing to my life. I went to the shewrites site and started a profile, but haven’t done anything else with it.

ah, what to do? what to do?

By: Sherri

Sherri — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:28:45 +0000

That’s the danger of the next big thing…I may not understand it. I was surprised to learn that blogging is now considered old fashioned. I’ll go check out tumblr.

By: Sherri

Sherri — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:25:57 +0000

Well why wouldn’t I? lol You’re the sweet one, with your encouraging words. Thanks. :)

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:58:33 +0000

My daughter and her college friends are using a site called tumblr, to create blogs that are essentially images with a few quotes or sentences thrown in here and there. Very visual. She says that large blocks of text are less and less popular with that age group, which I can easily believe. I love visiting her tumblr, because I can get insight into what catches her attention, see some photos of her friends, etc. (they are more "arty" and less "party" oriented, unlike FB!), without feeling like I'm invading her privacy. They also all copy images from each other's and other random sites. You can follow a list of all the sites the image has appeared on- sometimes hundreds of sites, increasing the sense of a visual community. And get this: no comments section! Just a list of who reposted your post, or who "liked this". Hmmm.

By: Angela

Angela — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:22:52 +0000

I hear you. Of course, I only lasted on Facebook a few weeks before I’d had enough. The whole world is changing so much right now — no telling what the next big thing will be. But if you keep writing, you’ll be in the right place at the right time. You’re too damned talented not to. Thanks for still visiting ER! You are so sweet!

By: DarcsFalcon

DarcsFalcon — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:02:36 +0000

I don’t know what the next wave will be, but I do know you can’t write based on that — you have go with your own personal wave, know what I mean? I don’t think books will ever go away entirely. People love them too much — their convenience, their portability, their tactile sensation. So you write because that’s what you do and who you are, and before you know it this one will be finished and you’ll be thinking about the next one. And if you need to step back from all things Internet, well then we’ll miss you while you’re away but we’ll be here when you get back.

And if you need me, you got my #, right? Darc’s too?

By: Sherri

Sherri — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:41:48 +0000

I know I’m not the only one with info overload. I think the regular person may end up eschewing the plugged-in route and let the geeks keep it, eventually.

Non-fic is calling…Does that mean you’re getting another SSRLP? Email me if you get the chance.

By: DarcKnyt

DarcKnyt — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:06:23 +0000

Boy, I'm late to THIS party, huh? I think most of us who can't see you in person miss you when you're not around. But then, the Interwebs has moments when it's simply too much. I've found being away from it a lot has reintroduced me to my other mistress ... TV. That's right, I'm still not writing fiction. Why should I? No one gave two sh*ts about it when I did, and now the non-fic thing is calling me. I have work there. So no, I'm not writing. There, I've said it. *Whew* But giving all these things up might BE the next big thing. I don't know what will replace blogging -- frankly, they're replacing newspapers and such -- but I have a feeling these eReader things are going to go south all at once. Technology's too shifting to have something stay too long. Books, though? Books're forevah.

By: Sherri

Sherri — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:20:31 +0000

I like the chalk better, too. And I wouldn’t have any reason to ignore you, even when I’m working on the book. Gotta take a break sometime. :)

It’s ironic I chose today to say how bored I am with the Internet, because I was online all freakin’ day.