How do you find the time to blog regularly? When you find the time, what do you write about?
These are two questions I’ve faced regularly since I started this blog. Finding the time to blog can, at times, be the easiest thing in the world. Login, write a post, hit “Publish”. No hassles. Other times, simply finding the time can be a task all on it’s own. Then, once you’ve found the time, what do you write about? I blog part time and, at times, have found that as much as I want to write a cool post, I have very little stamina left to even sit at my computer on an evening, let alone write a blog post.
Ideas, ideas, ideas. These ideas, they are very strange things. Sometimes they are few, and at other times they are many. When you feel like writing a blog post, there are no ideas. When you have no energy, there are too many ideas. My solution: write them down for later. It seems to help somewhat with managing the ideas and getting everything on track (similar to Prof. Dumbledore’s penceive in the Harry Potter books). A great idea should never be lost and always explored.
Scheduling blog posts; do you do this? If so, does it help? Is it a natural method of blogging? I find that I like to write about things I have experienced as I’ve experienced them, not a few days before, or publishing them only days later.
Quality over quantity; do you have to write a blog post every day? No, I don’t think so. Rather 10 awesome posts than 100 average ones.
Writing and reading have always been great loves of mine. To be able to pick up a book and get lost in a world that is, at times, completely fictional is something I wish never to lose. By the same token, creating a world that others can get lost in is a rare and precious ability, one that I wish to acquire as I write and read more, learning from my readings and from my writing journey.
Well, it seems like I’ve just written a post about writing a post. Go figure. What are your thoughts?
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