How do people find the time to blog? I always have ideas about things I want to write, for one of my blogs (there is the one in Swedish for example) or for a fanzine, or just letters. I always carry a little notebook, where I fill pages with notes about interesting things I want to think about later. There are also times I start writing a blog post, save it as a draft and think that I will finish it another time.
Maybe I'm just not managing my time very well. Work, travel, parenting... I'm not sure how I could organise it any other way than I do. There are people with kids and with full time jobs who blog every day, but I have no idea how they do it.
Benjamin Rosenbaum wrote: "Still, writing time is there to be had if I want it, mostly before 9 am, in a cafe on my way to work." I tried this, but it doesn't work very well for me. It's really difficult to get out of the house even 20 minutes earlier than usual, and mostly I would need much more time than this to really think about something. I also find it difficult to shift focus to my actual work if I warm up my brain with thinking about something else.
“How do people find the time to blog?”
ReplyDeleteWith great difficulty. I’ve found the same thing you mentioned happens to me too — having lots of ideas to write about, and some drafts even, but way fewer actual posts. I’ve decided not to fret about it, though — blogging is just a hobby, and I don’t strive to perfection. Sometimes I’ve skipped a longer report in favor of just a couple of photos, for example (and saved the longer one for my fanzine, sometimes), or just left stuff out. Otherwise, it would become a burden sooner than later, I think.
Also, in these days of RSS feeds and such, I don’t think blogging daily is necessary to keep people returning to the blog. Me, I actually prefer blogs that have a new post only when there is something to post about; the ones that have a post (or several) every day, but something that really interests me only once a week, for example, tend to get dropped from the reading list.