The Book of Ashes
Legend in his own mind, creator of all you see here, he walks this Earth on the path of the becoming.
On Thursday, 10, October 2002 Ashes wrote...
The idea of getting readers through writers... 1:14AM
In my search for excellent NZ sites across the web I have discovered an interesting thing. I came across a couple of other sites which consisted of a number of people posting up ideas or thoughts, not necessarily diary entries but rather Seinfieldisms, intelligent observations or bitchings about this world. The kind of things that interest people. Now if you have 10 people posting up entries, each reading each others on a regular basis and each having 1-5 friends who also read their writings and maybe others writings and combine this with the ambient factor of so many random hits per day from search engines, word of mouth etc, then quickly you have a small but loyal following that keeps your site alive. Imagine if you had 100s of writers, or even thousands. Of course it becomes hard to search through these to find the good ones and many people wouldn't even try but right there you have at least a 1000 users, writing their own stuff... The idea to getting hits it to make something that people will come to see, or else put dirty words in your keywords and everything will link to you.
Did a mish through town after the gym yesterday. Went and picked up a modem and then paid a visit on Martin as he lived on the same street as my modem vendor. We ended up going to Kittys for a bit of Uncle Monkey and a quiet beer. Sitting there watching the Uncle Monkey groupies dance about by themselves up front reminded me of my first Majoribanks St flatmate, Amanda, who was an Uncle Monkey groupie who took me down one night with her friends to watch them play. Uncle Monkey rock. They all have excellent voices and can all play excellently on their respective instruments. They are legends and when playing Pearl Jam or RadioHead or Nirvana I am in awe. They are that good. But I don't really like any of their own music. They are a cover band as far as I'm concerned and thats it. Same really cause they are good. But coming back to the groupies and relating that to being good, they manage to attract a few hot chicks. I guess there will always be someone who realises how good you are at something, even if its ant biology and will like you for it. That really stems from the saying...
If you build it, the people will come.
Which can be modified to...
If you are good enough, you will succeed [at what you are good at]
Thats really been my philosophy in life. No hard work, no struggle or strife, just simply and purely, if I am good enough then I will succeed. If I wrote a book then I don't need to worry about publishing it or advertising it because it will be so good that it will spread by word of mouth (thats the idea anyway, I don't actually think I'm that good). Anyway enough philosizing... my computer is still away and I am missing it. I am currently borrowing Dan's to tide me over till mine returns, hopefully in one piece