Blogging for Dollars

Speaking of multiple income streams, I’ve noticed that this wacky paid posting thing has gone on longer than I thought it would really be viable.  I’m expecting the infinite number of monkeys who write Google’s algorithm to find a way to thwart it any time now, but in the meantime I’m having a really serious and protracted fight with myself over it.

You see, we need the money.  Very badly, if not quite desperately.  But--and I know this is new information, because I figure ‘your blog, your business’ and I haven’t commented on it where invited because of this--I find it deeply obnoxious.  Some of y’all are very good at it, yes, but I still don’t like it, because I’m lazy and I hate having to put out the effort to avoid the posts I don’t want to read.  Because no matter how talented you are (and do I have to say again that y’all are talented?) my time is pretty limited right now and I don’t have any interest at all in most of the things you’re paid to write about.

Which makes this way of making money a really bad fit, right?  Except that I don’t really have to be interested, I suppose, just competent?  Ad copy doesn’t require passion, does it?  I know I can write competently about things that don’t stir my blood the way that say, a good political infight or some new dumbshit health news does.

And yet...it just feels wrong.  Because I don’t like reading it.  And I don’t know where I got the idea that I need to like what I’m writing, but it’s pretty damned ingrained.

*sigh*

Thoughts?  Besides that you think I’m a poop for having/holding/never mentioning that I’m not a fan.  That I’ll just assume.  Anything else, though? 

Posted by on 08/30 at 07:55 PM

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