Karen GoatKeeper's Blog - Posts Tagged "self-confidence"
Ambivalent Happiness
Several years ago I dutifully started an author's website. My first book was still a draft. But a website was supposed to be very important.
Advice on such a website said to target your audience. Who was my audience? I'm still not sure. However my books cover topics of nature, country living, goats, middle grade coming of age and science. So my website pages grew in number.
Every week I posted a nature commentary, a country living commentary and a science project. I tried to master SEO and advertise. My website remained ignored.
Until the GoodReads giveaway.Suddenly people began to find my website.
Then my Outside Project began posting Investigations from "The Pumpkin Project" and more people began to visit.
Happiness. Delight. Terror.
A new set of studies just came out on bullying and child abuse. The effects last a life time. Those of bullying can even be more terrible than those of abuse.
Parents are so important teaching a child to have confidence in themselves. This can counter even terrible taunts.
But learning confidence as an adult gives a fragile confidence. Fear and uncertainty sit just under the surface.
I am truly happy that people seem to find something to like about my website. I am also terrified I will find a way to make a mess of it.
Advice on such a website said to target your audience. Who was my audience? I'm still not sure. However my books cover topics of nature, country living, goats, middle grade coming of age and science. So my website pages grew in number.
Every week I posted a nature commentary, a country living commentary and a science project. I tried to master SEO and advertise. My website remained ignored.
Until the GoodReads giveaway.Suddenly people began to find my website.
Then my Outside Project began posting Investigations from "The Pumpkin Project" and more people began to visit.
Happiness. Delight. Terror.
A new set of studies just came out on bullying and child abuse. The effects last a life time. Those of bullying can even be more terrible than those of abuse.
Parents are so important teaching a child to have confidence in themselves. This can counter even terrible taunts.
But learning confidence as an adult gives a fragile confidence. Fear and uncertainty sit just under the surface.
I am truly happy that people seem to find something to like about my website. I am also terrified I will find a way to make a mess of it.
