A few weeks ago I started my Live Journal in Russian. I had about 5-10 readers, mostly friends of mine and Kostia’s. That was plenty.
Kostia’s still in Russia, and yesterday he met with the guy who is publishing his (Kostia’s) first book of short stories. Kostia tipped him off about my LJ, the guy promoted it on his, and since he’s widely known in narrow circles (he has 2764 LJ friends) I’ve been friended by about 65 people in the past 6 hours.
Most bloggers hope that their blogs will be read and appreciated, but this makes me really nervous. Writing in Russian is a LOT more work for me than writing in English, and though I have Kostia as my dictionary and grammar check, I still feel the pressure of expectations. Also, Russians on the internet are very critical, and hypersensitive when foreigners write about Russia, so I’m bracing myself for the inevitable harsh comments.
I’ll admit that I’m flattered and excited, but it’s scary too.
4 comments
14 January 2007 at 7:44 pm
Anonymous
Megan, don’t worry about your Russian and russian readers.
You write perfect and very interesting in Russia. I don’t pay a compliment to you. It’s true about your Russian.
You should write truly what your thing about Russia and Russian life. We have to know another view. And if you don’t say something because of you are worry that russian people won’t like it, you do mistake.
Russian often write badly about the USA. And they have never been in the USA! You do good job when you write your opinions about us.
Jul007
15 January 2007 at 1:14 am
dkon
Yeah, gotta say, your Russki is hella impressive. As to the worry over content, I think we can prove a lemma that for any statement, on any subject, there exists someone on teh internets who’ll take umbrage and write something rude. But screw them!
31 January 2007 at 2:36 pm
Anonymous
It’s virtual life :) don’t be afraid. 65 – not so many. If somebody wants to know different veiw on life, it’s good, I think. I have no possibility to visit America and Sweden also, but I can raed this LJ :)
kat_spirit (one from 65)
1 February 2007 at 9:55 am
Megan Case
65 was just in the first six hours! But things seem to have stabilized now around 140.