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What's great is that starting a blog can get you lot of attention for your writing. But it doesn't have to be for anybody other than yourself.

Because of social media, we have a lot of personal essays floating around; you see them on Facebook: everyone's either reading them or writing them. Some of them are great; some of them are diary entries put forth as essays.

Writing on the blog, you want to get attention and make strong claims. In academic work, that often doesn't pay, so sometimes it's a little bit difficult going back and forth to navigate these differences.

We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don't care about your blog.

I actually never liked writing on my own or in school until I'd had my blog for a while and realized I'd been writing every day for years.

I have a problem with blogs - all the best writers benefit from edits.

I love essays, but they're not always the best way to communicate to a larger audience.

My blog is a celebration of the unexpected, settled, happy life I find myself living in Portland, Maine, at the ripe old age of fifty with someone I deeply love and am very happy with. That's part of why I started the blog.

I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.

Blogs are quite a new development - now, everyone wants to know you, everyone wants to know everything about you. And you can build a following that way. In a way, it's a good thing if you want to create a buzz around yourself.