If there is one single travail that I would latch on to, it would be to pick a topic to write on when one is writing a blog for fun like all of my regular readers and I do. For us, blogging is an outlet for our creative impulses and we just love to show off our prowesses and enjoy being read and commented on.
And, if by chance the topic is available, finding the content which can do justice to the topic is the next biggest travail. For instance, one of my blogging mentors, when I had just started to blog suggested that I open a book at random and pick the fifth word from the top left corner for ideas for topics. Please try to find ideas to write on when you do find topics using that formula. For this exercise, I opened a page at random from the nearest book available and found the word to be “troubling”. (Page 72 of A New Buddhist Path, by David R. Loy.)
Closely following will be sheer ennui. Particularly when one is going through some stressful times. I recently have been going through this due to some health issues and to get myself to post blogs rather than just crawl into bed takes a lot of willpower.
Since that about sums up my ideas about the travails of blogging, I end this post with my request that other blogger readers, apart from the LBC leave their own ideas as comments. As I mentioned in my first paragraph, if we don’t get comments, we get demotivated and even devastated!
This topic was suggested by Padmum, for the weekly Friday Loose Bloggers Consortium where currently eight of us write on the same topic every Friday. I hope that you enjoyed my contribution to that effort. The seven other bloggers who write regularly are, in alphabetical order, Ashok, gaelikaa, Lin, Maxi, Padmum, Shackman and The Old Fossil. Do drop in on their blogs and see what their take is on this week’s topic. Since so
I’m sorry about your health problems, hope they improve soon!
About a year and half ago I switched from two posts a week to every day. Surprisingly enough I find this schedule easier to do than the old one, mainly because I used to have the requirement that I include at least one non-copyrighted picture per post. Now when I read the news I’m always looking to see if it would be interesting to blog about. I figure if it interests me it might interest someone else too. And, of course, anything you do regularly gets easier.
Anyway, take care and get well soon!
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I am sure that I will get back to more frequent blogging now that the stress aspect of the situation has disappeared.
I’m actually more than a bit burnt out on blogging. I’m not going away, just blogging less. I plan to blog at least one post a month for now, but will ramp it up later.
I hope that you conquer what ever it is that’s ailing you.
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Your situation is perfectly understandable Mike. If I had such opportunities, I too would blog less. I will conquer the demons not to worry!