Happy Halloween!
Hi guys! Well, I couldn't let this blog sit here without at least wishing anyone who may read this today a very Happy Halloween!!!! :D
A few things real quick... First, I'm fine. Nothing's wrong. There's been some concern of late about that since I didn't start posting here again this Haunting Season, and while I do appreciate your concerns (those who were), don't worry, I'm fine. I just didn't pick this blog up again this year that's all (which I'll explain in a sec).
Additionally... YES! I still LOVE Halloween and am as into it as ever! Nothing's changed there at all. In fact, I'll be doing my personal Halloween horror film marathon throughout this entire evening, as I do every year, and also reading some Poe by candlelight near midnight, as I do every year. Seriously. So yeah, I still dig me some Halloween and it's still my favorite time of the year. I'll definitely be with Old Haunts today in spirit!Lastly, here's why I haven't been posting here anymore...
Because my original vision was to do this blog ALL YEAR ROUND, not just the two or three weeks near Halloween. But what happened was, last year at this same time, this site suddenly got very busy and swinging in October. Lots of traffic and visitors! I was heartened by that and really hoping that if I kept on blogging even after October, enough people would stick around to make it worth while.
They didn't. :(
I discovered that to most people out there (and understandably so, I guess) this blog was only a "seasonal" site, to be enjoyed primarily during October, and then put aside till "next year".
Problem is, I have zero interest in doing a seasonal blog like that.
Like I said, I totally planned on keeping Old Haunts going all year, but when just about all my traffic, comments, and e-mail stopped almost completely overnight after the 31st last year, and then never returned, even as I continued to blog here for a while, I knew I wasn't having fun. And that's why I stopped.I don't want to blog in a vacuum, only for myself, and only for an audience every October (this is the same exact thing that happened with my Santa & Me! blog too, btw, in case anyone's wondering about that).
So anyway, in the end I simply put this blog aside and moved on to my other busier, non-seasonal blogs (I update Malls of America every day).
I do miss Old Haunts (it was really my baby), and would still be doing it regularly if only the audience was there regularly--and not just for one month out of the year.
In closing, I'm still trying to decide what I'm going to eventually do about and with this blog, as I do love it and really don't want to close it outright, but at the same time, also have no real incentive to add to it anymore. Not sure what I'll end up doing (I plan to decide pretty soon), but I'm going to give it some serious thought.
Have a great & spooky Halloween everyone!
Keith
posted by Keith at 10/31/2006
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