Conversational BackTalk, the blog being talked about at every water cooler, lunch table, swing set, bar, dinner party, dog park and senior home around America. So maybe Pat Glowacki is the one making America great again? Decide for yourself, you patriot, you.
Some seven years ago, I signed up for Blogger and created the world famous Nugget Blog. We launched by analyzing the state of the 2009 Philadelphia Phillies, hot off a World Series victory and ready for three, long and agonizing seasons of severe disappointment and underachieving that only Mr. Brady could have been proud of as father of a baseball team. I couldn't have seen that back then and I couldn't have seen the success that would come from my simple blog, either.
Success is different for every human being on Earth. It is measured differently for those in Corporate America from those in non-profit America. Americans measure it differently from the British, who measure it differently from the Russians, who measure it differently from Nigerians. Success, though it carries one, main definition in the dictionary, comes in all sorts of sizes and interpretations. For me and for my writing, success was personal. I did not measure it in Google Analytics, I didn't weight it through increases in readership or page views over the course of a designed timescale, and I did not determine success by my lack of so-called "failure". Simply put, I measure the success of my writing by one thing only, my writing.
Looking back on my early posts, my writing was short, choppy and plain. A back page feature at a small town state school paper was fifty times more entertaining and controversial as my pieces. I was new to the field, unaware of my strong need to sharpen my craft. I was young and prideful, now, I'm older and constantly yearning to improve, never comfortable with my latest post.
That is where this new blog comes in. The Nugget Blog was tremendous, both for myself and for, I hope, the readers that it yielded. The blog taught me how to write better, how to research more intently, how to design more boldly and how to brand myself in the incredibly competitive online blogging market. But that chapter is over, and it is time to write a new one.
Ladies and gentlemen, dedicated Glowackimaniacs, please enjoy Conversational BackTalk.
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