After only 13 posts, I already know that this is a successful blog. The reason I know this it that I've already written a successful blog, and see all the telltale signs recurring. Neither blog is successful from an external standpoint; my first successful blog had only two devoted readers, and this one has at most one at the moment. However, external success is definitely not the object for true bloggers. The object is for the blog to be internally consistent, and interesting to the author (of all people :-)).
My first successful blog was called "My first play million" (http://myfirstplaymillion.blogspot.com/), and was about poker. In five years plus, I penned 1,386 posts. I've found that the key to writing a post lies in selecting an appropriate title; once I settle on a title, the post just seems to write itself. Being frugal by nature, I tend to reuse truly apposite titles.
When you've written hundreds upon hundreds of posts, your ability to come up with imaginative titles understandably starts to run a little dry. The solution for this is to plagiarize (as Tom Lehrer remarked, that's why God made your eyes :-)). Many times, I reuse the title of a book or a song I like. This post's title is no exception. "Towards Zero" is the title of a mystery by Agatha Christie.
What do I mean by towards zero? Simply that the difference between my wins and my losses, so long in the negative numbers, is inching its way back to zero. If I can manage to win one more game than I lose tonight, I'll be all the way back.
neostreet: 1212 (53-54-8 (115))
monvieux: 1274 (279-226-15 (520))
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