Offbeat Bride eventually grew to be a whole network of lifestyle sites (including and ), and while the writing is remains personal and first person, it’s most definitely NOT my personal story.
I made my personal blog members-only in 2009. While my desire to be a publisher never slowed, my patience with personal attacks got pretty thin. Part of this shift to more topical writing was getting sick of talking about myself, but part of it was also in response to some pretty intense trolling that I dealt with for several years. Within a few months, it became clear that no one cared about my stupid memoir, but everyone loved the website. I shifted to WordPress when I launched, which was originally just to promote my wedding memoir that I was oh-so-excited about. After a couple years, I started exploring more topical publications, first with in 2002 (dedicated to hula hooping) and then with in 2007. I came of age with the early wave of personal bloggers, and was totally focused on first-person writing. What made you shift from a personal site to professional ones?Ī. You started as a personal blogger and now have your own Empire running on WordPress. Thanks to the joy of ye olde, I was able to have my own blog within an hour of being introduced the the concept. I was immediately struck by the immediacy of self-publishing… I was sick of being beholden to the magazine model of printers and distribution, of having to wait months to hear feedback about the work I was producing. I was editing a rave magazine in 2000, and got an inquiry from a freelancer who linked his blog as his writing sample. When she got married, Ariel wrote a book called Offbeat Bride: Creative Alternative for Independent Brides, and started a site to go with it.Ī. If you had asked either of us then what she would ‘grow up’ to be, it wouldn’t have been the head of a wedding industry business. She was a raver with multi-colored hair, editing a couple of zines and sites and writing reviews for to supplement her income. We became friends, and I have fond memories of hula hooping on the roof of her apartment building at sunset. Back then, there weren’t very many people calling themselves bloggers, and it was easy to know the few dozen people doing so in your city. We’d “met” through our blogs, and then met in person at a bloggers meetup. I met Ariel back around 2001 when I moved to Seattle. I am beyond pleased to announce that this speaker is Ariel Meadow Stallings, the founder of the Offbeat Empire lifestyle sites. This last featured blogger announcement for the Portland is pretty special to me, and really brings home how small the world can be when you’re a blogger and able to make connections through your website.
0 kommentar(er)
