thinking about blogging
22 06 2008
Those of you who check in here regularly may have noticed some irregularity in posting. I started up the new blog in April, was a bit sketchy about posting, but then in May I was suddenly posting every day! June hit, and I'm all sketchy again.
I have made an important (for me, anyway) discovery. Or a couple of them, I guess.
First, something I learned from the May experiment (my unpublicized goal was to blog every day--in reality, I missed two days but ended up with 31 posts anyway due to extra posts a couple of times; I considered the experiment a success): blogging every day isn't really that hard. Yes, occasionally I ended up throwing up a sort of cheater post but at least I put forth the effort to do SOMETHING.
Second, if I DON'T have a "post every day" goal in my head, it is ridiculously easy to convince myself that I don't have anything to post about. Seriously, I think of lots of things to talk about (writing blog posts in my head--I'm sure we've all been there). But then I manage to convince myself that it's not worth it, no one will care, it's boring...whatever. Obviously there's some self-defeating thinking going on here, since I really do WANT to post.
So. New goal, spoken in public this time: From now on, I'm going to post DAILY. I won't beat myself up if I do miss a day here or there (so don't worry that I'm dead or in the hospital or something if I miss one day ;)), but the plan is to put something out here every day.
In July, I think I'll have another goal to pursue. I'll talk about that one as it gets closer (it's something I also tried to accomplish in May, but getting used to posting every day and also trying for the second thing at the same time didn't work).
On the knitting front, I cast on for a new pair of socks yesterday. Just one quick thing to say about them: Wow, that Kureyon Sock knits up pretty. I'll post a picture tomorrow. :)
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I have made an important (for me, anyway) discovery. Or a couple of them, I guess.
First, something I learned from the May experiment (my unpublicized goal was to blog every day--in reality, I missed two days but ended up with 31 posts anyway due to extra posts a couple of times; I considered the experiment a success): blogging every day isn't really that hard. Yes, occasionally I ended up throwing up a sort of cheater post but at least I put forth the effort to do SOMETHING.
Second, if I DON'T have a "post every day" goal in my head, it is ridiculously easy to convince myself that I don't have anything to post about. Seriously, I think of lots of things to talk about (writing blog posts in my head--I'm sure we've all been there). But then I manage to convince myself that it's not worth it, no one will care, it's boring...whatever. Obviously there's some self-defeating thinking going on here, since I really do WANT to post.
So. New goal, spoken in public this time: From now on, I'm going to post DAILY. I won't beat myself up if I do miss a day here or there (so don't worry that I'm dead or in the hospital or something if I miss one day ;)), but the plan is to put something out here every day.
In July, I think I'll have another goal to pursue. I'll talk about that one as it gets closer (it's something I also tried to accomplish in May, but getting used to posting every day and also trying for the second thing at the same time didn't work).
On the knitting front, I cast on for a new pair of socks yesterday. Just one quick thing to say about them: Wow, that Kureyon Sock knits up pretty. I'll post a picture tomorrow. :)
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