My blog is designed solely to entertain–both my readers and myself. I’m a writer with opinions and ideas about everything and anything and this is where I spout them off.

I am a freelance writer so this blog falls somewhere between a job and a hobby.

Having written for a living for many years, I found myself becoming constricted as a writer who has had to please editors. I started this blog as a way to stretch out as a writer, exercise different writing muscles, say what I want to say without the filter of an editor, and rediscover the joy of writing.

I started blogging on MySpace in 2004 and moved to my own blog a couple of years later.

That’s a personal question I prefer not to answer.

My blog is not designed to earn money although I have earned money by exploring topics first in my blog and then developing those topics into stories or essays I have sold to paying markets.

I cover a lot of subjects and always keep the goal of entertaining my readers in mind. I try to be funny sometimes, profound sometimes, provoking sometimes. I post links, photography, video and sometimes even sketches. If you don’t like a post one day, check in the next.

I no longer post on this blog every day, but on days I do blog, I usually invest an our or so of time to each post.

My blog is entertaining and I enjoy engaging readers in discussion.

Be consistent in posting as much as possible–once or twice a month won’t cut it–and pay attention to comments. I am extremely flattered when people take the time to comment and try to respond to everyone. I learned during my years on the staff of a newspaper that once responding to readers nurtures loyalty.

This blog can be visited at http://www.sophiadembling.com