Back to the days of Xanga.
It's been a while since I wrote a blog post for myself. I spent some time last year writing blog posts on behalf of clients at an ad agency. Those blog posts were fun at first, but they ended up boring me eventually. As someone who had never traveled in an RV across America, I could only fathom the experiences that I was writing about as my own "daily rituals." I may have faked the knowledge, but it wasn't too difficult to do so once you got the hang of it; recipes, small-space organization, places to visit and pet-friendly activities were a few of the many topics that related to the cross-country tourism industry.
I've always deemed myself to be a passable writer. This indulged thought gave fruit to anti-social years of reading and eventually writing fanfics. They never got finished. As a highly impressionable freshman in high school, I allowed my friends to influence me easily. Laughter at my metaphors and engaging imagery discouraged me from pursuing writing further. I never understood why fanfics were frowned upon in comparison to Xanga. The blog writing site engaged many other adolescent peers, including me. Socially acceptable, Xanga was a great outlet for my daily musings, and also allowed me to connect on a deeper (yet surface) level with my fellow students. One of my light regrets is my failure to pursue my storytelling, whether fiction or non-fiction. Another sadness that follows is that Xanga has fallen off the plateau of popular social media. Thus I take my ramblings to tumblr, a new medium for someone like me who has had plenty of experience with WordPress.
With my recent dance with blogging for money, I have decided to once again pursue the art. I have recently acquired an assistant account executive position at a marketing agency, with a slightly smaller than expected salary--for a student fresh out of undergrad with two degrees. I hope to maybe make some side income out of blogging. I just have to learn the right (and most profitable) way of doing so. I only know of WriterAccess, a site used by my company to order blogs from "LoveLists" of writers who were ready to write blogs for commission. The only thing I don't look forward to about blogging for money is ultimately paying taxes on the money I earn. Will it really be worth it?
Does anyone know of sites similar to WriterAccess? Any experienced bloggers who make cash off of blogging?