Blogging became popular within the last ten years. I started using blogs about that long ago. Professionally, blogging really took off for me seven years ago. After I started my first blog, I became so enthused about the immediacy of being able to publish my words that I started another blog, then another, and yet another. Before I knew it, I had created a network of blogs that I lovingly call "The Midnight Writer's Network". Once I reached ten blogs it became work for me. It was then that I began to really look at blogging as a profession. I discovered that blogging is a unique writing opportunity unlike any other form that I had experienced.
I love blogging! Even though I am a professional creative freelance writer, I still devote my energy to building my now fifty plus blogs. /As a writer, I will continue to pursue the lofty ideals of being published in magazines or getting a novel published. Additionally, I am currently writing my first screenplay. For now though, blogging is my bread and butter. I found about half a dozen companies who will pay me to write on my own blogs. The money is better some times than other times but it helps to tide me over until that big magazine article reaps a payday.