I think every day I write at least one thing I think is cool and return a few hours later to find no one had liked it or even had read it. I guess that’s my humble pie. I’m a “reach out” sort of person but it seems so many blogs out there just don’t see blogging like I do.
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Tell us about a time you found out after the fact that you’d been mistaken and you had to eat a serving of humble pie.
Source: Humble Pie | The Daily Post
Ok, I’ve read a few of the reactions to this prompt and I have a reaction to those. First of all, I recognize that not a few of the WordPress.com community are authors and that is why they come here to blog. Personally, I am an author but of another sort. I wrote a blog about my life up to age 43 and self-published it. I have no delusions it will ever sell many and I’m satisfied with my work for what it is. I have a wife and kids and a 9 to 5 job as a fourth grade teacher and that is the end all of my fame. Anything else would surprise me. Now, back to the “authors” among us. I came to this community to let peers know I have a blog, not to get the to read my book. I write something SMALL every day not to usually exceed 250 words.
There’s a reason for this: I don’t have time to read much more as I blog hop. TBH, very little out there is worth reading beyond those 250 words. But I digress. I think some of these authors stating the progress of their books etc. might do well to get a slice of humble pie. Here you are just bloggers. I think every day I write something I think is cool and return a few hours later to find no one had liked it or even had read it. I guess that’s my humble pie. I am just another one of the teeming throng calling itself a horde of writer on WordPress.com. I only wish there was a way to get “in” a circle with like-minded bloggers who share and share alike, comment and comment alike and try very hard to stay humble and not appear precocious. It’s weird to be in the blogosphere, you have to know what success is because if you think it’s in subscribers, money, or traffic, you’ll probably never be successful.
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