Fast Fiction

I’m really flabbergasted.

Candy Blog is doing well. Better than I ever expected. At the moment I’m getting about 50 hits a day according to my NedStats. I’ve also logged that there are at least four subscribers to the feed via bloglines, and another bunch via other aggregators. My webalizer stats say that I’m getting about 96 hits average this month per day, so I have no idea how to measure such things or if it’s even possible these days. Fast Fiction, by comparison on nedstats gets about 15 hits a day and it’s been around for nearly four years now.

The thing is, I’ve done very little to promote the site. I use it as my URL when commenting around the web, and made a few references on la.foodblogging.com to reviews. About 40% are coming to the site via search strings (usually a candy name). Another 20% seem to be via links from other people who have found me and are recommending the site. The other 40% seem to be coming without any link from anywhere ... that means bookmarks!

The thing that really sends my head reeling is that I’ve been writing for a long time (pretty much as a career choice since I was 18) and I’ve been trying to connect with audiences all that time through a variety of themes and formats (plays, blogs, short stories, essays, novels, etc.) and here comes a modicum of success via something that reaches so many people already, CANDY.

I know that the stats aren’t fantastic, but I figure with a little more promotion and a more robust site with more content it can succeed.

It brings me to ask myself, is this something I could devote my life to?

And the answer is an unequivocal YEAH!