John Hewitt's Blog

  • Home
  • Archives
  • Subscribe to John Hewitt’s Blog by Email

About

Hi, I’m John Hewitt and this is my web site. It is an old site that is long past its prime. Welcome!

I wrote many of the articles on this site in the mid-1990s, before there ever even was a poewar.com. Back then this site was a subpage of a long-gone service called StarNet. I first started writing the articles here in 1994. In 1999, I finally got the poewar.com domain you see here. So, it has been PoeWar.com for nearly 20 years now. My second big streak of writing articles came between 2005 and 2009, so even most of the “newer” articles about writing are at least that old.

It was about 2010 that I just ran out of gas. I had nothing more to say about writing. Also, Facebook was killing the idea of blogging as a career. Don’t get me wrong, there were and are people making a living off of just a blog, and at its peak this site made around $2000 a month, but blogging became all about SEO, marketing, and clickbait, and I was never very interested in being a salesman. When it came to self-promotion, this site was my self-promotion. I found that I was spending my time promoting the thing I had created to promote myself, and that was just too much. In 2012, I started a great new job and my wife and I had twins, and this site moved even further down my list of priorities. Since then it has mostly lingered on, generating  a little coffee money for me off the few clicks I get on ads.

 

I’m working on a rebirth now that social media is imploding and individuality is starting to make a comeback. We’ll see how it goes.

Enter your email address:

Delivered by FeedBurner

Welcome!

I am John Hewitt and this is my blog. I am a Content Strategist for a personal finance company. I also write fiction and poetry, which I publish here. I enjoy a lot of television shows, movies, and books which I also post about from time to time. I have a life and sometimes write about it.

This is my spot to talk about whatever I want, no matter how controversial or mundane.

About this blog

This is my personal blog. It reflects my thoughts and opinions and not those of any employers (past or present) or other affiliated parties. Any endorsements I make are my own.

I don’t use an ad service, but I do have affiliate links to Amazon if I talk about a book, show, or other item.

Also, I have no editor, and I sometimes make typos or otherwise write badly. Yes, I am a professional writer. Yes, I also make mistakes.

Unfollow me!

If you don’t like my views on politics, writing, or anything else, please unfollow me. If you don’t like the way I write, please unfollow me.

There’s no need to let me know. It won’t change anything about me or you. I don’t care how much traffic I get, so you aren’t hurting the site if you leave. Everything is fine. Just go do something you enjoy more than reading my thoughts.

Copyright and reuse

Unless otherwise attributed, all work on this site is my own and comes under general copyright. Please use attribution when quoting from my site or republishing any images.

Privacy note

Other than what Google Analytics tells me about my traffic in general, I do not collect information on users and I would never resell people’s personal information. I also use Disqus for comments. You’ll have to register with them if you want to comment, but they get your information, not me.

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org
© John Hewitt