I set myself a blogging goal, but after thats reached well, it might be time to move on. Or it might be time to set a new goal.

Blogging requires some hard work to do to a reasonable quality and quantity.

Gobble gobble.

As Richard Dean Anderson is fond of saying, LTS. Life’s Too Short to do something you’re not enjoying.

But yes blogging does takes a tremendous amount of effort even for a hobby. It takes lots of commitment and even more to keep at it daily and weekly. You also know after a while readers do follow your blog and check to see what you have up. So there is a bit of commitment there to keep the lights on your blog on. Thus when a blog goes dark with no word or notice you worry as a reader. You wonder what happened, did they quit? Did they they take a break, what happened? Often what happens to them as well reflect life in the game.

For me I usually say blog are like friends and friends apart of the game you play. They are like the great guildie you never really had or wish you had in some way. They are a bit of a companion on your adventure because they are in the same adventure with you as well. Some are further along, some are behind in the adventure. They share stuff with you in their daily happenings and perspective and you share your experience back with them. In all helps to enrich your game experience. No one that play this game can know everything or learn everything all at the same time about everything. The game is just too big for that learning curve. But blogs are often like guides as well they help guide you along the way to your future adventure. As well you help the people out that blogs as well. Because in their effort to write and keep at it they will eventually help you back out as well in some way only known to you.

So yes its is sad to see a blog go by the way side. Its a tough thing to blog as a hobby. Some hobbies are serious hobby and taken seriously by the people that do as well the time commitment it takes. I do it for fun as a hobby, but with commitment. The time it takes to write a blog about happenings in WoW is time not spent playing the game or time that could be spent doing other RL stuff. So too is reading blogs as well. You do give up time to write a blog. I can imagine as well the time it takes to write a BBB post because you know he put some time into it.

When i’m at work I read all the blogs i read on my little Ipod. It’s nicely tucked in my shirt pocket. Whenever i have a min or two i check things out. Thats how i keep up with all my blogs daily i have linked. Some i read, some I try to keep up with more than others. Most i do visit on some kind of schedule to read whats there. Especially for the blogs that’s been around for a while and are stable blogs. I read them because they are fun and fun to keep up with the characters. Bloggers are real people, real people who play the same game along side everyone else. They just share things from their little perspective of their WoW world. So for me when its time to quit readers will know and that time will eventually come. Probably sooner than much later as well. In the end I agree with a previous commenter, some blogs are just real entertaining.

Awesome post though.

“Ardent Defender”

I understand copletely when bloggers stop blogging, it’s a major time investment for a hobby after all. I do really prefer when they say goodbye, though, so you at least know all is all right (there still are people who care about the welfare of complete strangers in a non-stalking way) and, of course, so you can now there’s no need to keep checking up on the blog aymore.

However, the blogger owes nothig to his readers, and if he wants to just pack it in without warning, then that’s his perogative.

Nice post, BBB. Readers should enjoy their blogs for what they are and appreciate the time and effort involved in keeping it going. This is the same as the person you’ve raided alongside with for a year suddenly going on a leave for the game, or even quitting altogether. Let people go, flourish, and appreciate the time you spent with them. All you can hope for is that you’ve made a friend here and there (in RL, online, or wherever) and you’ve been yourself, honest and true, for the ride.

All joking aside – it would be the most horrible feeling of helplessness that one can ever experience. Hopefully you never had that happen.

(all no, sharing time (big hug!)) When it happened to me, I had phone calls from the folks I was group with (we have never seen each other, but we do share email and phone numbers). Luckily my wife called them back after she got me on the floor and got me over my problem, told them what happen and yes, I was ok, etc. Still didn’t stop them from pestering me for a week, lol (said with love), after. To me, those little toons running around are people I know. There are some I love, and there are some I dislike – but I won’t tell them that. And it is a reason why I do my best to be helpful as much as possible. I may not know you by your real name of say, Mike, but I do know you of your toon name such as JD and I do care about ya.

As far as bloggs and bloggers go – yes, it is a hobby, and everything that BB says it pretty much right on th emoney, but I still feel like I am losing a friend when they go away.