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Blogger Interview

Roseanne Schmidt

http://roseanneschmidt.wordpress.com/

How long have you been blogging?

I've had blogs on Xanga, Blogger, Live journal, Dead journal, gaia online, deviant art, face book, etc... since I was 15 years old. I'm 27 years old now. The disjointedness of it all is now very apparent.

I've been seriously blogging on Word press for a little over a year now. With a more serious focus as to blogging frequency within the last few months.

What inspired you to start a blog?

At fifteen, my inspiration was angst. Much like the rest of my generation and their online "diaries" springing up all over the Internet. After that, I guess it was a dripping need and desire for someone to take notice of me and tell me what I had to say was important.

I think in certain ways, I still have those inspiring notions to an extent. But, now, as a much older and wiser woman, I feel that my inspiration comes backed with a headstrong desire to reach out and grab others by the collars and pull them to where they need to be. I'm a helping kind of soul, and that's my inspiration for blogging, now.

You're working on a blog novel, how is that going?

It's a new thing for me. I have a distinct procrastination problem with follow through when it comes to my stories. They don't really seem to be going anywhere at some point in the writing process, and I tend to abandon them. I'm hoping that the premise of blogging about my novels progress with the goal of