Validation comes in all sorts of ways: increasing readership numbers, “friends” who friend but do not know you, and being invited to make a media appearance. The ultimate validation is from a stranger who has no stake in a person’s popularity or wealth.
Imagine my surprise when I drove around the internet and parked at an online site because I was attracted by the heading, “Blogs to Explore,” and my newly birthed blog, (https://literarynomad11.blogspot.com) made the list! I was elated beyond words. Wow!
- Seduction of the instantaneous (discardstudies.wordpress.com)
- How to Analyze a Literary Work (thefavorsglossary.wordpress.com)
- On Interpretation and Multiple Layers of Reading (tonguesophistries.wordpress.com)
- Literary Reading, Cognition and Emotion (psypress.com)
- Free Joyce and Woolf (tothelastword.com)
- The ‘Writer Reader’ (thelondonreadingclub.wordpress.com)
- Literary Blog Hop: Analysing Literary Works (breadcrumbreads.wordpress.com)
- New LiteraryUK Blog Launched!!! (veebeewriter.wordpress.com)
- Response to Literature: A Recipe (literarynomad11.wordpress.com)
- Hello readers! (literarymidwives.com)
I could go on and on about examples of validation, but right now, I find myself speechless. Thank you to the stranger who recognized something special in my blog! Thank you!
Hello. I just received a pingback from this post because my blog (Tongue Sophistries) is included here. Could you send me the link for this “Blogs to Read” thing which you mentioned? Anyway, congrats.
Hello and congratulations to you as well!
I was just exploring WordPress, the foundation of my/our blog platform, when I stumbled on the article. I have gone back many times after that to locate it and have searched through the “Search” box, but I cannot seem to find it again.
On the day I saw the article, I simply clicked on the “Next Blog” link that always appears at the top of the WordPress band. My article’s link was listed to the side the day I saw it, and I did not copy it down; sounds moronic, I know, but it was WordPress, and I figured that it would always be there since it was listed on the right side of the the WordPress main page.
I am so sorry for the disappointing news. I will keep looking.