Sometimes you simply cannot find the motivation or the desire to sit and compose new written works, because the muse deserts you.
Interaction with other writers is these days most definitely missing at triond. OK, we do not always have the time for such things, but surely it is only courtesy to make some kind of comment if you read something and enjoyed it?
Oh my gosh, I learned soooo much!
It was not until I stopped to wonder if the effort was genuinely worth the rewards that I realized just how completely ineffectual and pointless older posts are.
It seems clear to me that far less attention should be given to the posting of non-fiction stuff and much more emphasis given to poetry and fiction, at least on my own part.
We all know that this is not the place to earn any decent amounts of money for our writing, but the fact is that if we want it to be fully appreciated and more widely viewed, we need to think again.
We may not like the bare facts, but we ought to face them if we want triond to be the best writing experience for us.
When you are doing REALLY well if your latest post gets a couple of hundred views – earning you a whole 20 cents – you start to wonder if you are allowing yourself to be cheap labor.
It is not just this site that is experiencing problems, because of what appears to be a downturn generally in the amount of web surfing that goes on.
How do we EVER get to make money here? It seems no matter how hard you work or how dedicated you are, making real money is a pipedream on this site.