Not quite dead yet ... just whoring myself elsewhere

Liza Sabater

This is a standard blogapology for my absence from this bastion of blogness. I've been having a whale of a time posting at my own, c u l t u r e k i t c h e n, especially after my hits literally ten folded thanks to Mr. Filkins' pinged me deliciously from The Safer Sex Page.

I am a stats whore. I love seeing those numbers go up. My libido goes down with them. It's a bad, bad, baaaaaaad habit but at least it's not crack. Yes, it comes with an increased consumption of caffeine and nicotine but, hey!, it makes me smell a bit more like a Parisienne [stats] whore.

Which takes me to the topic at hand : Does your writing change once you notice those hits on your pages? Do you start to think, "Hmm, maybe I should be posting more about X, Y or Z topic because I am getting these interesting responses".

Writing is for me another form of conversing. I actually write as I would speak —metaphors, similes and all. I am also quite reactive in conversations or, as I saw a blogger describe himself, I am quite the "controversalist". So stats become in a sense comments on what people want to read more about. If it is something that is still fresh in my interest, I'll go after it for more. It's what any controversalist would do.

How do you blog? Is blogging to you about writing or about conversations?