I Blog Therefore I Am (Or Maybe Not)

I just finished reading an article in today's Newsday entitled "Fame and Fortune: They're in the Blog". This article mainly focuses on those superstar bloggers, who broke out of mainstream writing (those trying to get published) and turned to blogging. These are not your run-of-the mill bloggers like us who are just trying to get enough traffic to generate some income from our affiliate programs. No, these are would-be authors who wouldn't have a chance in hell, prior to blogging, to get a publishing deal, but now they are blogrebities with books or blooks, as some are called. One such such writer, who quit her day job at a law firm to blog and then got a book deal to write a novel based on her blogging journey, says she feels more legitimate as a writer because she will be published. She claims that other bloggers have said the same thing to her...that they feel like fakes because they are only bloggers and not published writers. Then there's the blogger who blogged about how she made every recipe of Julia Child's in her tiny aparetment in Long Island City and finally was able to get a book published on her experiences. Then there's the notorious senate aide or blogged of her sexual escapades during her days in Washington. Frankly, she was making enough money from some of those long lunches (nod, nod, wink, wink) that she really didn't need a book deal at all. Of course, the article mentions those blogging superstars, Arianna Huffington and Jeff Jarvis, who both have gotten quite a boost because of their blogs, but there's little or no mention of the rest of us who blog just because we can. For me writing is a great creative outlet. If I never have a book published it won't break my heart at all. How about you?