Making it Fun: How Blogging About Doing Ordinary Things in Extraordinary Situations Exploded My Audience

by K.L. Sullivan                                                                                 

Two hundred miles south of the Equator and a thousand miles from land, my husband and I were crossing the Pacific from Mexico to New Zealand on our 24-foot sailboat. It was Spring 2012, the trade winds had stopped unexpectedly, and we were becalmed for three weeks. How calm was it? So calm that the avocado peels thrown overboard after lunch passed us.

How calm was I? Not very, after chasin...