Ah Raj,
We really outght tell them the rest of the story. . . . :)

If you're thinking about being a problogger, folks don't tell you everything you might want to know about it. You might see what looks exciting. Take a looke a little closer.

Glamour is only glamorous from far away. I sit at my keyboard writing this at 10pm tonight.

Those 940,000 hits I just looked up by my name on Google aren't fun or interesting when I want play or read instead of write another post that's due tomorrow.

If you become a problogger you will find

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• that you have to explain what you do to every person you know over and and over and over and over again. . . . I tell my mother-in-law I write spy novels. It's easier.
• that every job you get will take longer than you thought it would. I don't know how this happens. . . . It's a Murphy's law thing.
• that occasionally folks who become your fans will send you email and expect you to stop your work to answer them over and over and over and over again. . . . . Unfortuantely, telling them you're in the middle of blogging a spy novel won't work with them.
• that you'll still have the same problems with traffic and stats that you had before, escept they'll feel bigger because now you think about losing money.
• that no one will be as excited as you are that you're finally a problogger.