To Triond or Not to Triond?
An article about how I came upon the Triond community of writers.
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I don’t know how the rest of you found Triond, but I was online looking for ways to make money as a writer. Perhaps, that is how many of you found it , as well. I have been writing poetry and short stories for a very long time. I have had a couple poems published here and there, but nothing where I really made any money. So, here I am online a couple months ago, finally serious about doing something with all of the material that I have written. The website for Triond came up and I decided to try it out. I am really glad that I did.
Of course, I want to make money like everyone else , or none of us would be using this site to get our material published. But there is one thing that I have found that I am enjoying more than the little bit of money that I have been making. Money or no money, I like this website. I have thoroughly enjoyed reading the stories, poems and articles that my co-writers have written. It has given me an insight into the kind of people they are. I have gotten glimpses of the funny side, the serious side, and the moody side of the community of writers that make up Triond. I try to leave comments, for I know how vital comments are, and I have enjoyed reading the comments that they have given me. Comments, no matter how much is said or how little is said, are still important.
I have been on Facebook; I have been on Twitter. Both are great ways to keep up with your friends, but with Triond, we are becoming friends too. We all have our love for the written word in common. Writers are a special breed of people. We write in our sleep. Thoughts come into our minds before we are going to bed and we think about those thoughts. The thoughts come together and we must either get up to write them down or try to remember them in the morning. Either way, writing is something that we must do. We think about writing all of the time.
Writing is in my blood. I would not be happy, if I could not write. It feels me with a sense of peace that I don’t get from anything else, except maybe God. Just like John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, and Emily Dickinson, of years gone by, I too, must express my thoughts and feelings on paper, or like today’s age, on the computer. If I had not found Triond, I would not have found all of you…my community of writers who I can now call my friends. We come from all walks of life, from all over the world. People are people and people are precious. Life is precious and as writers we all value life. We have something to say and say it we must.
I would be lying if I said that I didn’t want to make money as a writer because I certainly do, but I am grateful for the opportunity that Triond has given me by publishing my articles. But I can say in all honesty, that even if I never made another dime on Triond, I am glad to have had the opportunity to have met all of you. You are my life-line to the writing world and I thank you. May peace and blessings come your way this day.
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September 17th, 2009 at 10:01 am
I found out about Triond from an article I read on Helium.
September 17th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
What a lovely article. You have expressed everything I feel about Triond. I really like being a member of this great writing family and I have made so many friends. I understand completely how you feel.
Christine
September 17th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Great article. Triond is cool. I felt like an outsider, looking in. It was like no one was interested, in what I had to say. I keep on pressing toward the mark.
September 17th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
Fantastic article, and your so right when you say about the friendship that are built,unlike those of facebook and twitter. We all have a common interest and different ways of viewing ideas. Awesome!
September 17th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
How could your life go on if you had not have met me? lol.
September 17th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
Nicely expressed, however I have found that Triond seems less friendly than other sites (TIBU) that I have been a member. I can always tell how friendly a site is by the number of comments or even likes I get from writers I always comment on.
September 17th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
I don’t recall how I found Triond but I’m glad I did. I like your take on the ‘community’ here and had not thought before how much more benefit it really could be than some of the social networking sites.
God bless,
Greg
September 18th, 2009 at 1:02 am
The community will outlast any money we make – I have made some really great links over 6 months – so you’re on the right track!!
September 18th, 2009 at 1:47 am
We’re glad to have you in Triond.
September 18th, 2009 at 2:35 am
Great article… I agree about the money that we all want but I totally enjoy the writing and reading other’s work. I have met some nice people too.
September 18th, 2009 at 4:28 am
I agree with you. Thanks for writing this important article. We are a community of good friends here and we share so much.
Blessings,
François
September 18th, 2009 at 10:08 am
Right…its pretty much the same that I wrote in Why I like writing for Triond but youhave expressed it much more artistically! you defintiely put in much more poetry in it! it was a nice read…keep those coming!
September 19th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
I think I just found it by dumb luck. I’m sure most of us have found it because we’re looking for ways to earn some money. Great article.
September 19th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
I like everything about Triond. And I’m convinced that a long-term commitment, active participation in the community and the regular publication of quality content will produce an ever increasing flow of money. It just takes professionalism.
September 21st, 2009 at 1:56 pm
Lovely article… I feel like you were writing about me… “we write in our sleep”…. so true! I too stumbled on Triond quite by accident while looking for places to get paid to write and it was the first site I tried not sure why, but it was also the last. I absolutely love it!
September 23rd, 2009 at 1:02 pm
I’ve recently discovered Triond and I like it. It’s a great community.
November 15th, 2009 at 1:25 am
Thank you. I’ve just started submitting to triond and am still a little bewildered at how it all works. Reading your article was like meeting my first friend here.