My first blog was a taxi driver blog in 2007. It sucked. I think my mom and the cops were the only ones who read it. When I landed in the spare room of my parents' tiny apartment, in November of 2008, I had 24/7 access to a computer, tied to the internet, for the first time in my life.
After a couple weeks of "surfing the internet" and watching too much porn, I started blogging about my days working at FREESTYLIN' and BMX Action magazines in 1986. I was bored, depressed, and couldn't find any job in North Carolina. About 30 posts in to that first BMX blog, one post went viral among Old School BMXers, and a few started emailing me. They said, "These stories are cool, keep writing!" Or something along those lines. So I kept blogging.
I've written over 2,800 blog posts since then. In late 2012, shortly after my dad died, during a real dark moment, I deleted everything I had written online at that point. In a matter of minutes, well over 1,200 blog posts disappeared. That was stupid, I regretted it immediately, but it happened. Not long after, I began blogging again. Here are my main pieces of work online, that are still out there on the interwebs.
Steve Emig: The White Bear blog - This now has over 1,000 posts, and over 350,000 page views. Over the last year, I got huge groups of page views from weird places, and I'm not sure what's up with all of those views. But, even without the mystery views, this blog would have 180,000 to 200,000 legit views. That's a lot for a personal blog.
Steve Emig The White Bear's Substack- Substack is a platform designed specifically for writers. I've been doing most of my writing there for a year now. These posts are much longer, in general, and on many different themes. You can subscribe (for free, for now), and get each post sent to you as an email, if you want.
Steve Emig The White Bear's Substack Pinterest page - This page acts as a big Table of Contents, where you can see memes for each of my Substack posts (except the most recent ones), and you can click a link directly to the individual posts.
Welcome to Dystopia: The Future is Now- This is a 20 chapter book/blog where I explain the crazy times I saw coming in "The Tumultuous 2020's." I wrote this between October 2019 and the beginning of June 2020. I built the blog on December 21st, 2019, then wrote and published it, chapter by chapter, in the six months afterwards.
Freestyle BMX Tales (Version 3) - The original Freestyle BMX Tales blog was my main BMX freestyle blog, written from late 2009 through 2012. In that time, it had over 500 posts, and over 125,000 page views. This was the biggest blog I deleted in October of 2012. The current version is #3 of FBMXT. The 2nd version I did on Wordpress, but later deleted.
Steve Emig's Street Life blog - I gave up the SE:TWB blog for a while, and did this blog, in 2022. The last post, the one that comes up first, has links to several other blogs that I've done.
"Addicted to Blogging" blog post- In this post, I list 30 of my blogs (which still isn't all of them), but these all have 1,000 page views (or real close to 1,000). I've tried well over 50 different blog ideas in the last 16 years.
OK, I realize that this is an absurd amount of writing. This is what happens when a writer can't make a decent living for 16 years, scrapes by, and just keeps blogging. I have lots of stories and lots of ideas. If you ever get really bored and want to dive down into my writing rabbit hole, these are the main entrances.
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