The True Test

I have ceased using blogmad.net as much as I was in the past few days. I am effectively cutting off my traffic exchange as an experiment. Depending on my hits, comments and shouts over the coming week, it will determine whether my blog is a failure or not. I am sure many bloggers who use services like blogmad come to a point where they just cannot be bothered surfing anymore, and for good reason; a blog shouldn't have to rely on this method of traffic garnering. If any readers out there read my blog, I thank you. Now is your time to prove to me that you exist; post a comment, a shout, or e-mail me at jamesritchie@gmail.com.

This is not my only problem; I've been struck with a bit of blogger's block. I don't think anyone out there wants me to just keep replying to those imagination prompts (see other posts), and I can't keep leeching off YouTube forever. I need a topic to focus on, a category I can delve into without coming out of it with no readers. I think now of my passions; writing. I can't keep coming with poems, and I doubt many people would stick around on the blog just to read a lengthy story. How about gaming? This I could possibly do. But I'm not sure I could find as many readers out there. I enjoy reporting on various blogging tools and the art of blogging, but there's only so much you can say, and so little that I know. So, I need some suggestions. What do you think?