tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-567668315717895367.post6537272864490327855..comments2024-02-25T05:03:48.092-07:00Comments on Eudaemonia: Online Dating and Blogging Weren't What I ExpectedLisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00665632105920753931noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-567668315717895367.post-75261628337155968772007-07-13T23:42:00.000-06:002007-07-13T23:42:00.000-06:00Reality, I hope you have finished your travel for ...Reality, I hope you have finished your travel for now and you're back at revising again. I am definitely glad to have made your acquaintance here in the cyber world too.Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00665632105920753931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-567668315717895367.post-66501297940375988782007-07-12T23:09:00.000-06:002007-07-12T23:09:00.000-06:00Lisa,You know I am not quite available. Today at l...Lisa,<BR/>You know I am not quite available. Today at least.<BR/><BR/>Great post and i loved how you connected on line dating to blogging. And you are one of the many whom i have had enjoyed meeting in the cyber world.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-567668315717895367.post-54399521145521480482007-07-12T13:13:00.000-06:002007-07-12T13:13:00.000-06:00Amy, I think there have been quite a few books wri...Amy, I think there have been quite a few books written with the online dating aspect included already. My experience was so limited that I wouldn't really have a great basis, but Scott could write a book. He enjoyed online dating, just to meet people and to date and did it for at least six years. He described periods of time to me where he scheduled so many that he referred to it as Combat Dating.<BR/><BR/>There is a great podcast available on Writers Revealed (I have a link on my site) that's an interview Felicia C. Sullivan did with the author of I Love You, Let's Meet, a nonfiction book about online dating and I listened to it last night. It was fascinating. <BR/><BR/>Susan, every time I type the words blog or blogging, I think exactly the same thing. It sounds like some kind of disgusting biological function, like throwing up!<BR/><BR/>Patti, you're right about how the perception of online dating has changed and if you see my note to Amy and you can listen to that podcast, they address that aspect. In the early days I think it was thought of as a haven for perverts! Now it's the haven for perverts and everybody else. <BR/><BR/>I haven't been online as long as you have, but I think blogging has been similar for the two of us. I have been utterly amazed at how attached I feel to some of my cyber friends, even though we've never met or spoken. I miss people when they aren't around, am happy when good things happen and worry about them when they seem a little fragile. <BR/><BR/>Shauna, I'm really glad you brought up the importance/emphasis on web presence for writers. That is definitely a factor for many people and it's interesting to see how each writer (and you're one of the published ones already) structures her site and uses the forum. I'm vaguely conscious of the fact that one day I'll be looking for an agent and that anything/everything I put out here will be available for anyone to see so, but I haven't yet thought about it much in terms of how/if it would impact me in the future if I were to be published. I definitely enjoy the focus you have on your blog and I you're on my daily rounds.<BR/><BR/>Larramie, I may have told you this before, but Seize a Daisy ties right into your meme revelation about being a fairy godmother. Seize a Daisy is the place I know I can always go to find something uplifting and in that respect, I think of you as a fairy godmother.<BR/><BR/>I am so glad I met Scott for more reasons than I could ever list and I have to say that if it weren't for online dating, our paths would never have crossed.Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00665632105920753931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-567668315717895367.post-191855396534012602007-07-12T12:06:00.000-06:002007-07-12T12:06:00.000-06:00When the phrase, Seize a Daisy, popped into my hea...When the phrase, Seize a Daisy, popped into my head last July, everything simply fell into place. The blogs I read were interesting but not quite diverse enough and not always good news. And so I created a blog that would hopefully spark the imagination and put a smile on someones' face, if only for a few minutes. And, of course, the bottom line is that now my readers/visitors/friends are the ones who keep me smiling. <BR/><BR/>As for the Lisa/Scott love story...I always KNEW it was special and about two people who found each other by taking a leap of faith!Larramiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14788910637361812265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-567668315717895367.post-20992233103250692012007-07-12T11:13:00.000-06:002007-07-12T11:13:00.000-06:00I started blogging because I kept hearing that edi...I started blogging because I kept hearing that editors nowadays want even brand-new fiction writers to have a Web presence in the form of a Web site and a blog. <BR/><BR/>Although I enjoy reading personal information on my friends' blogs, I wanted my own blog to deal strictly with writing in one way or another—grammar essays, book discussions, interviews, announcements of publications (too few so far!), etc. ( I did make an exception when I was tagged for the eight-things meme.) <BR/><BR/>The blogs I return to regularly also deal in some way with writing. Becoming a successful fiction writer is my highest priority right now, and I want to expand my universe of writer friends beyond the people I know in New Orleans.Shauna Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03871768714926149114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-567668315717895367.post-34251145004905759712007-07-12T09:57:00.000-06:002007-07-12T09:57:00.000-06:00i love this story of how you met scott. i remembe...i love this story of how you met scott. i remember when online dating was for the oddest of our society, and now look at what it has grown to.<BR/><BR/>i started blogging as a joke with my son who had just left for college. then it morphed into keeping contact with him and my nephews. from there it changed into a place where i could flex my silliness. i always loved a comment from someone who laughed.<BR/><BR/>during the process i discovered my life was very different from most...that the stories i told seemed a bit unbelievable to most, but they were the truth, so the blog evolved into telling about the weirdness that was/is my life.<BR/><BR/>after a few years i started writing full time. husband and i even closed a successful business so that i might have the time to devote to writing (talking about base jumping!). and then i came to blogger to connect with other writers and those thinking about writing and those successful at writing...and also to share my life.<BR/><BR/>like everything else in my life my blogging has evolved. i love it and it IS valuable to me on so many levels.<BR/><BR/>i also love the new friends i have made. seriously...i love you guys.Pattihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05716215892504806470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-567668315717895367.post-54356598259548608412007-07-12T09:01:00.000-06:002007-07-12T09:01:00.000-06:00I think that in a very short time you nailed the t...I think that in a very short time you nailed the tone and feeling--and I suppose, reasoning--behind weblogs.<BR/><BR/>I only wish there were a better word invented instead of "blogging"<BR/><BR/>susan@spinningAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-567668315717895367.post-17801248178048128832007-07-12T07:49:00.000-06:002007-07-12T07:49:00.000-06:00You're starting a new work of fiction, right? Any...You're starting a new work of fiction, right? Any chance you could write a memoir or thinly disguised novel about online dating? I LOVED this post. I want much more, all the details. The part about Scott thinking your photo was hideous and wanting to meet you anyway is beyond romantic. Any chance at all you could write that book?<BR/><BR/>AmyLynne Griffin and Amy MacKinnonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11107479565926998943noreply@blogger.com