What Will The Future Bring?

As much as I don't like cross pollination, I didn't really think this blog belonged on 5th Fret as it's more about me than guitars.

They say the average blog lasts three months and then either dies or goes away, either way you never hear from the author again. I think this could be for a variety of reasons like something coming up in life to take your attention away from your blog, you becoming so bored with your own life you decide to stop posting as a way to stop the suffering of your readers, you aren't inspired to write because your readers and in the "few" category, you're putting unrealistic standards on your shoulders like demanding yourself to blog every day (you don't have to or you can do what the Nablopomo cheaters do and just post a picture as a blog), etc. etc.

For whatever reason blogs don't last that long and I could see that happening. I am almost out of that window. Just a few more days. But honestly, do you think I'm going anywhere? I have been posting blogs on MySpace for a very long time (since about 2005) and I don't really see an end in sight. There's something I like very much about blogging. Perhaps it's the chance that my stuff is actually being read.

Anyway, my guitar blog, located at http://5th-fret.blogspot.com/ is still trucking along as well. When I started I knew I wanted contributing writers to help out with the blog load with a goal in mind of one new article a day and while we aren't there YET, I hope to be one day soon. The blog count is still over 20 in about 1.5 months so that isn't TOO infrequent I guess. Not frequent enough, but not too bad. I just don't want people coming and seeing the same article they saw last time on top and then think that the blog is dead and never come back. But I digress. I knew I wanted more authors to help me out but at the same time I felt guilty going into it. What if this blog does only last three months, if that? What if I end up wasting the other authors' time and energy by not keeping the pace?

Well, like I said, 1.5 months down and we're still going. I'm finding ways to keep the blogs coming mainly from listening to a guitar podcast (six string bliss) and letting it inspire some ideas. I think that's been the problem with my lack of new material. I think what I needed was to talk to someone about guitars that I don't know (or listen to them talk) an use it as a springboard for my own ideas. A blog coming up soon will give them all sorts of credit too because I find their podcast not only incredibly entertaining but invaluable to my own article writing.

WARNING!!! TANGENT: I like to call them articles instead of blogs on 5th Fret mainly because I really do strive for a level of professionalism and am treating it as my own personal magazine.

Anyhoo, I hope 5th Fret sticks around for a LONG time. I also hope this blog sticks around as well. I'm sure this blog will, but I just hope 5th Fret does. I really like it and I'm putting a lot of work into it, more and more everyday (a great escape from the fact I live in a crappy town doing a job I'm not too fond of while thinking every day I'm not doing what I'm supposed to do but not knowing what that something is) and frankly, I love it.

I hope you visit both blogs to see what they're about and if you like them, recommend them to your friends and subscribe to them (if you use a Google reader I can know when someone new subscribes though it won't tell me who or where they are so your confidentiality is secure save for the fact you are one more hashmark on my vanity wall).

Thanks for reading and sticking with me. I appreciate it!