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- What’s your name?

Can’t tell you, because then you’ll have the power to summon me by saying it three times and I find people tend to abuse that privilege. Especially when drunk.

- What’s the name of your blog?
Renal Failure

- What’s the URL of your blog?
http://renalfailure.wordpress.com

- How old is your blog?

It turns 3 years old in December, though it’s only been on Wordpress and available to the wider world for 2 years.

- If you’re willing to share, how many visitors per day do you have to your blog?

Anywhere from 60 to 130. I wish I had more, but admittedly Renal Failure is rather esoteric and a lot of people don’t get it. But those that do get it, they stick around.

- How much time do you spend blogging every week?

As long as it takes to put up a post a day. This could take a couple minutes or several hours. Sometimes I’ll work on three posts in a sitting for future postings, other days I won’t even touch my blog.

- Is it the creative process or the editing process which take you longest when writing a post?
The creative process, because it takes a lot of energy and brainage to craft truly wild fabrications and outright lies. Editing those fabrications and lies, however, is a breeze.

- What inspired you to first start writing a blog?

I went through a period of depression for about a year that was so bad I lost the joy to write, which sucked because writing had been my anti-depressant. So I started Renal Failure as an experiment to get writing again and kick my depression square in the babymaker. I wanted to put out something a day for a year, and succeeded for the most part. And after that year was over I just kept on going and moved to Wordpress.

- What do you do to get inspired to write?

I don’t think you can do anything to get inspired, I think it just happens to you. You see something or hear something and an idea just comes to you. It’s not like I have to turn the lights down low, light a few candles, turn on some Barry White and put out lit cigarettes on my nipples to get in the writing mood. I mean, I could totally do that, but I don’t have to.

- Is there anything that you simply refuse to blog about?

I don’t refuse to do this, but I don’t like directly blogging about myself, that is the person behind Renal Failure. I do blog about myself indirectly through my stories, but that’s as close as I want the reader to get to me.

- If you went for a job interview and were told that you’d have to close your blog in order to get the job, how would you react/feel about it?

How did they know I am Renal Failure? Who told them? Are they CIA? KGB? UNICEF? And why does my employment hinge on ceasing to write pseudonymous tales about drinking with a half-cyborg cat?

- Do you talk about your blog with your relatives and friends or do you avoid mentioning it?

I tell my friends. I don’t tell my family because they wouldn’t get Renal Failure. Ninja Vicki, Avonia the Wiccan Pimp, Anonymous Doug… these things would just go right over their heads.

- What is the biggest mistake you made when starting your blog?

Not being on Wordpress sooner.

- Any tips for aspiring bloggers? -

Do something different. See what everyone else is doing and don’t do that.

- Who are the bloggers that you look up to the most?

I don’t know that I look up to bloggers (I have a nasty competitive streak that makes me want to be supreme blog of the world), but I do admire nursemyra for the sheer amount of quality material she posts on a regular basis, and for Corset Fridays. Also I need to credit Fafblog! for showing me how absurdity mixed with current events can work in a blog.

- Do you still see yourself blogging in 5 years time?

Probably. Because the world will always need a Tag Larkin.

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