Ask The Reader

by Joyce

I've been emailing back and forth with the other Working Stiffs today trying to come up with some ideas to keep the blog "fresh." Some of us have been doing this blogging thing for over three years and sometimes it's not easy to come up with topics that haven't been done to death.

Pat's flash fiction bit and poll the other day were a lot of fun, and I was thinking maybe we need more of something like that. We've started brainstorming an idea for the month of February that looks promising if we can figure out what the heck we're doing.

I'm going to take this opportunity to ask some questions of our readers.

• What kinds of posts would you like to see on Working Stiffs?
• Are there any particular topics you'd like to see covered? 
• Would you like us to pick a theme or a central question each week or each month and have the posts relate to it?
  
• Are there any authors you'd like to see as guest bloggers?
• Would any of you readers like to guest blog?
  

That's all I can think of right now. If you come up with anything else, please put it in your comments. Remember, this blog is for you--the readers, so please chime in and tell us what you think. Even if you've never commented before, we want to hear from you!

A NEW YEAR

by Gina Sestak

Another year has come and gone, and now we're into 2008. Since mid-2006, I've been blogging every two weeks or so about various jobs I've held. So far, I've covered 29jobs, ranging from actress to zombie (actually, that was the same job, see my post of 9/23/06). For each job, I've tried to convey how it felt to do that work, and what that job experience has added to my life and writing. I'd like to take today to ask whether or not you've all gotten tired of hearing about all these jobs. In other words, it's survey time!

Do you want me to continue writing about jobs? There are still quite a few that I haven't yet blogged about.

If not, do you want me to write about random things, as I do on occasion, like Harry Potter (8/29/07), dreams (7/11/07), or trying to get published (5/18/07)?

Or would you rather I just not bother to blog at all?

Please let me know.