Followers

I've been remiss in posts for the past few weeks due to work and being ill.  I usually try to post on Sunday at least, perhaps just out of habit.  According to blogger, I only have one follower thus far.  I don't expect to have a ton of people following me at once, especially since this blog is very new, but I wonder how it is one collects a following with a blog.  I look around at other blogs and people seem to have at least ten or so people following them.  How do these people find the blog?  Is it chance?  Is there a connection somewhere that I miss?  I don't know.  I would like to hope that people read my writing and get something out of it, that people read me because I write something of substance.

I suppose many people who write in blogs start to do so due to the movie "Julie and Julia."  This book, about a woman who blogs about trying every recipe in the Julia child cookbook, is an example of how blogging can help an aspiring writer to market themselves.  Julia didn't have success straight off.  One of her first followers was her mother who commented something like "I don't know about this whole blogging thing."  My parents don't blog, so I don't have them as followers, but I do share my writings whenever I can.

I want to know what the trick to success is here.  Of course I don't expect Julie's success.  Maybe my aspirations are too humble, but I would like to hope that I am reaching someone out there.  If I am I would like to know any suggestions for marketing myself to more readers, please leave comments.  I would like to see what people think.