Mar 30
Language issue
I know my blog lacks of reasonable content. I wish that each of my entries would not falls into a senseless ramble. But oh well, the main subject of this entry is about the language in which I’m posting.
I’m also trying to find a good name for my blog.
I myself am a bilingual person, I can write and speak fluent Finnish and somewhat fluent English too. (And of course some Swedish and German. And that oh-so-common Japanese.) I’m just unsure of my English skills, so if my entries are full of grammar and conjugation mistakes please let me know about them, thanks.
Just “colouring” up my blog by posting old drawings in this random entry. (Soul is also in the banner image and next to him is Perryway. Both of them are my characters.)
A little more text after the jump:
So the main problem is that should I post in Finnish or keep this blog in English? I’m planning of keeping it in English, but since this blog will never attract greater attention it could as well be fully in Finnish. But I guess thinking this is quite useless.
But one important question.. What do you want to read or see the most?
Also, a big Thank You for Tsubasa for adding my site to his blog’s (Otakunvirka) blogroll. I’m humbled in an ashamed way, but it was me who added his link in the first place. I’m just a mere subscriber to Otaku fanzine and an eager reader of his blog. (The blog is only in Finnish, though.) He’s an awesome writer, yes.
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Why, thank you. No problem.
I believe that specializing helps you to find your audience, even if your blog would be just about personal art and papercrafts. For example, NovaJinx blogs in English because he does it just to vent himeself and keep his language skills fit, but if I would do the same I’d just vanish to the endless sea of other anime blogs. So it’s just a matter of who you want to write to.
Well, an easy way to get popular is to subscribe for feed aggregator sites like AnimeNano and Animeblogger.net Antenna. Of course that limits your writing somewhat, because you have to come up with at least something that’s postable there every once in a while. Personally though I find networking with other bloggers to be more important. I’d much rather have a small, thoughtful audience than a vast mass of feedreaders who never bother even commenting. For example, posting a link to my latest post on #animeblogger IRC-channel resulted in 10 comments. The next day somebody put me on Stumbleupon which instantly gave me almost 1000 views but not a single comment. And rest assured, I felt much more happier about those 10 comments than the 1000 faceless views from an aggregator site.