As some of you may have read in the comments section of Who Knew, this will be my last month blogging.

The truth of the matter is I am just too bloody slow to make this worth my while. I’m one of those writers that will sit and write for three hours (often after a few hours of research or more), edit for another two hours, whittling away, nudging, adding, subtracting, deleting, inserting, switch-a-rooing, cut-and-pasting and generally creating waaaay more material than needed. Then I’ll leave it for an hour, only to come back and edit for another hour into a somehow manageable/publishable blog. I’m tired just talking about it.

The thing is, blog pay is based on, I am told, spending approximately 30 minutes per entry, of which there should be at least one per day totaling, in a bizarre twist of math, forty-three blogs per month. At thirty minutes a pop, the rate isn’t bad. My six + hour per entry rate, however, means I make less now than I made babysitting after school in the mid-80s… MUCH less. Now, money is definitely not everything, and not even the reason I took the gig in the first place, but I have to draw the line of value for my time somewhere.

I think good blog writing takes a certain kind of writing process: you know, the kind where the blogger actually manages to get to the point. Imagine! I read Sandra’s blogs, for instance, and wonder in awe how she can fit so much into the little box of a blog entry. My meandering mind uses more than the 300 word average just for tangents, let alone the heart and soul of the matter at hand. I mean, I require a certain amount of time and word count for overwrought metaphor and a bucket or two of sarcasm then a bit more for free-association and complete nonsense and all that is before adding in the main ingredients of facts, experience and analysis.

Of course, those of you that have been reading me for the past three-point-five months already had an inkling of what I’m on about now, didn’t you? Tell the truth ... how often have you thought, “Jupe, come on now, get back to the point, girl… you can do it!” It’s ok. I think that to myself all of the time, so you are in good company (if I do say so myself …)

Anyway, my over-write and chop-it-down methodology is just a bit much for an every-day venture like a blog. Oh, and did I mention I am in the process of writing a novel? Hm. Yes, I guess that is important to throw in the mix, as my wee little brain can’t seem to fixate on all the adoption fixations while at the same time rub-a-dub-dubbing my imagination until all the characters swimming around in there jump in the blooming tub, already.

So, having given my main excuses, oops, I mean reasons, I would now like to invite any/all of you to let me know if there are some topics that you would like me to address, rant over, pontificate about, elucidate ad nauseum or generally share my experience/POV concerning before my last blog. Your wishes are my commands ... how often have you wanted to hear those little fairytale words, eh?! Get ‘em while they’re hot.