When I started blogging mid-2010, I was writing for myself. Although I told all my family and friends about it and tried to make them read my drivel, I went on the assumption that nobody would bother, or might read it just to indulge me (or perhaps more appropriately, to stop me asking them if they have read it).
I figured blogging would help me improve my writing and give me a creative outlet as a way of de-stressing from a stressful office life. But why didn’t anyone tell me I would develop an even more stressful obsession? Why did nobody ever tell me I would become obsessed with checking my blog stats?!
Here’s an example of the latest stats for the month:
