Y'know how an itch can eventually go away even if you don't scratch it? Well, for me, writing is not like that. The itch does not go away; it'll build up and up until it bursts out of me. Gawd help me if I don't have a keyboard or a piece of paper to let it out - I get distracted and sometimes snappy with the folks around me (poor folks!).

I never ever consider keywords when I write for Xomba which is probably part of my problem when it comes to making money with Adsense, which I don’t. I’ve been a member here for almost a year now and I haven’t yet reached the $20 mark. Yeah, it can get kind of frustrating when I see other folks who have been members for less time and easily hit $100 seemingly without trying. Maybe they just have better writing skills or more interesting articles than I do. Hell, I don’t really mind if that’s the case; - I’m just here so I can have somewhere to put my writing, I guess.

When I'm writing, I'm not thinking of search engines or how to make money or how to get a higher rating than other folks. To be honest, it's the articles that I least expect to that get the highest ratings (such as this one) and it's the ones that I sometimes work the hardest on (like The Bloop) that can go un-noticed. Yet, in saying that, I have noticed that anything with a touch of humour in it (Please Excuse Me As I Install My Fart Silencer), can be very well recieved.

Anyways, I don't want to sound Bukowskian or anything but if folks want to read what I've written, they will. If they don't, then I bear no grudge against them. Don’t get me wrong, I do care about the content and quality of my writing - I care very much – but I find that the task of thinking of and including keywords for search engines distracts me from whatever it is I want to say in my articles. Maybe this is something I just have to work on?