Wriging

> What makes it so great?

my readers and people that leave comments.

1) Because it's good enough for people to leave comments once in a while.
2) Hell, it's good enough to be on 9Rules, so I'm guessing a fair amount, though I'll let you decide.
3) Everything, though lately it's been a lot about writing.

[Edit: Stammy FTW.]

My cute little mug in the sidebar.

Well, like the others, I love my readers and the interactions we have. On a more conceited note, I think I write fairly well about topics many people can relate to... that's what keeps my awesome readers coming back.

Pretty much exactly what Erin said - We both rule :D

There is not a single reason mine is great. It's never finished. Half complete design and I write about myself all the time. Kinda like a disjointed autobiography. :)

My blog is great for pretty much the same reasons stated above, people leave comments, and seem to enjoy what I have to say.

It's great for me, in that it's a wonderful outlet for me to express myself on a topic I feel passionately about. It wouldn't end my life if no one commented, but it's a nice addition to my venting.

...not to mention, if 9rules picked me up it HAS to be good... am I RIGHT people!?

I don't have any readers, if any... very few. But I'd like to have some. But the reader part and interaction part I can see why so many people like.

My blog is great because I enjoy writing what I do, along with displaying my photos and the little bit of interaction I get from friends family and others.

Well, without sounding like an arrogant arse, I think my blog is great because I try to be myself. I try to be true to myself and my thoughts.

And, like the others have said previously, the readers who keep coming back to my blog and commenting. While I know most bloggers (especially "personal" bloggers like me) are supposed to wear some badge that says "I blog for myself!", at this point in my life, I don't really know how true that is for me. If all of my regular commenters suddenly disappeared, I'm not sure I'd keep going. Certainly, there are times when I feel like throwing something out into the world regardless, but I've really come to enjoy the discussions in the comments.

It's funny, really - when I first started blogging years back, I thought comments were typically just random people dropping random words in a bucket, never to be heard from again. Granted, I'm sure a lot of comments still are like this, but it's pretty cool to slowly get to know your regular readers via the comments. Hell, one of my commenters was thinking about trying to get me to attend university with him in Norway (I think) until he remembered I was married. That was, in a peculiar way, a wonderful compliment, that someone would want to drag my weird ass along to university.

(Of course, he also wanted me to go so we could get the university to reinstate a program they'd just dropped - Medieval and Nordic Studies, I believe - but I digress... ;)

1) there is a cow in my logo
2) i get say whatever i want and not a damn thing anyone can do about it
3) i would say i love my readers but i don't really think they exist, but i still have fun with it :D

Probably because when I started blogging there weren't a thousand blog sites online telling me how to blog. It allowed me to to start blogging, as an offshoot of a livejournal, for myself - having no idea what it was for, and slowly develop a place of my own with no particular niche. A place which over time gathered a lot of readers for a personal non niche blog.

People read my blog because it's good, ask them. I'm not sure why the people who read it two years ago at blogger read it because it was written very poorly and I never returned comments - not knowing the protocol - but now they read it because it's good.

The comments are sometimes fun, sometimes serious often long.
No "good post" comments, real comments.

I have a couple groups of readers, some read all my stuff, some read only the fun stuff and some read only the serious stuff.

Auvee - It also has an about page, which you really should get

I get comments, and mentions by other bloggers I respect. And maybe, someday, when I grow up, I'll be part of 9Rules too.

I think my blog is great because while my niche is coffee, I don't limit myself to just talking about coffee beans or doing coffee product reviews but include news, coffee house culture, art and the occasional opinion piece.

I think its great because I love coffee and I try to tailor what I write to something I would find interesting, plus I don't get too full of myself. :=)

The blogs I ran that had comments it was always about the interaction.

The blog I ran with no comments was all about my personality and not giving a rat's ass what people thought about my writing.

My blog is a place to gather and talk about putting fiction on the Internet. But it's really not the subject matter that makes it rock - its the exchange of ideas and the effort put into creating a writing community that matters.

It's easy to navigate, fairly attractive, with relevant pictures that don't take forever to load, and without the slideshow/flash/sidebar plugins and widgets that slow things down and break the layout. (I learn just as much about what not to do by looking at the blogs that you wouldn't visit as I do from the ones I go back to frequently) I try to include tips and tricks that help readers with their own quilts and projects, or maybe just get them thinking in a different direction, as well as just writing about what I do in my own studio.

I do include other non-quilty stuff occasionally as well, like comic relief in the form of my cats, or life in general type posts. Commenting is easy for readers, and I always respond to comments left (which is pretty easy since there aren't that many). I'm always trying to improve it, since at the moment maybe it's not "so great," and I do think more comments would be a definite plus.

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