When should I post? or Am I writing too much?

I have fun writing my ?journals?. This is for a few reasons. As I write, my memories get rekindled. As I wrote about New Mutants #8 I was even able to remember the salt air (I lived over the bay at the time). It helped me remember the curiosity I get every time I walk into a new comic book shop (something I have not done in a really long time) and head over to the back issues bins. The other reason is to allow someone else to remember some of their own memories, maybe they will remember passing up an iconic key book to go to the three for a dollar rack. Does anyone remember when comic books came out twice a week?

I tend to get ideas when I work during the night shift. I write them down on a blank check or moleskin I carry. After I get home I type them out and place them on the site but only after one of my ?journals? gets kicked off. Sometimes they get kicked off quickly, other times it takes a small while. I don?t mind waiting but I love to put up a new journal when I write them. Of course if I write four in a row, then I am knocking my own self off.

When a journal of mine increases in views I know at least I am writing something that others want to read about (and I thank you for that). However I can never count the first view because that one is mine and that shouldn?t count. I save the journals in a separate file so if I wish to reread them and make a future entry I can. I even look over my total journal entries going back to when I first started (16-Nov-09) and see how many journals I have over 101 views (like I mention the first one doesn?t count)

I?ll even go so far as comparing my views to others and noticed that those who add a picture seem to have more views, I added a few myself, not necessarily a graded book but something that has to do with my journal entries. I love seeing the covers of what other people write about. I might not collect them or even be remotely interested in collecting what I am seeing but I get enthralled in the energy of reading about what other people love.

Sometimes I associate a view count with an issue cover, most of the lower view counts I think of are New Mutants covers, now some of my journals are getting higher and I associate them with the Uncanny X-men that correspond with issue #. For instance I thought about how I would feel when my view count hits 202 and the image of sentinels come into my mind.

I wonder with each journal will I gain a following that will look forward to what I write or do people pick and choose if a title moves them. (I tend to read them all. Either way, I thank you for reading this entry and I ask you to read my others and maybe, just maybe send me a note and tell me what you think.

Thanks for reading

Tnerb

PS. I wrote this a while ago with the thought that I would wait till I was kicked off the recent three and then post another journal. Sometimes they stay on for a while and I get the views I like, other times they are thrown into the back issues bin to possibly be overlooked (I like the analogy). I do not know whether to continue to wait until my current journal is no longer readily available or just a matter of four days.

I have acquired new CGC books and new experiences about those, for instance, record braking comic book sales, restored graded comic books, the best condition possible, losing in the final seconds, and Rom. I would like to keep current but I also want to be read. Kind of like the comic books I bought this past Sunday (3-21-10) at the Philadelphia Comic Con. Maybe I will just post with whatever deadline comes first. Of course?.I might wait longer if I have nothing to talk about(my father would say hell would freeze over first). Thanks again for reading.