Slowly But Surely

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I enjoy writing longer pieces, and while sometimes I do write longer pieces here (to the chagrin of some I would suspect), this site is still not suitable to the kind of writing that I really enjoy doing. Read.cash is a place I have ventured into a bit for some of that. But even though it is a writing site, it's not a writing site. The thing is, I don't write for interactions. I don't write to be forced to interact. I write because there is something I want to write about that I write geared to people who want to actually read something. Enter, HubPages. It's a place I used to write on more but left due to a variety of things happening there that I did not like. One of them was that the site had no organic presence that was worthwhile. If I did not go to your page and someone else's page, no one would bother to come to mine. And did anyone really read what was written? Did anyone actually care about the content? That's not writing to an audience of active readers. That's writing just to gain a form of simple reciprocation. When it's like that, I think, "Why bother?" You could just type a series of letters onto a page and that would be enough to get someone coming in so long as you interacted. I prefer real people interested in real reading reading what I write because they enjoy my content and my style of writing, and are truly interested in the topic. HubPages has mostly turned comments off, and are more selective in what gets "featured," so content on the site is more meaningful and more "regulated." Which gives the site a higher level of credibility among people who find things to read there. And there are numerous sister sites as well—this just makes the traffic there more genuine and real. And frankly, more profitable. Because when you can spend more time focusing on the content rather than the interaction, everything you do is for more purpose and done better. It is more meaningful, and therefore, more rewarding. So, I have been there a bit more, seeing some results that interests me, and as such, slowly but surely am working my way back to spending much more time plying my wares there and enjoying real people coming by to see what I have to say. Sidebar: This commentary is not regarding myLot, which is also not technically, in my opinion, a writing site. I consider myLot similar to Twitter and Facebook. It is a social media site, and therefore interaction IS the point, but is also not dependent upon reciprocation. Here we interact because we generally appreciate each other's company.