I’ve come to the conclusion that I need to get out more, or at least do more that other people may find interesting and useful that I can blog about. When I started this blog, and my photography blog I thought I could make a couple of updates a week at first and see how things go. It appears that I am struggling to make ONE update a week, if that, which is bad, very bad.
I think reaching the status of pro blogger is a long way off and I haven’t yet reached pre pro blogger yet. What I have found is that I think of something to post about, but then think “hmmm if I talk about this, then I should explain this, but by explaining that I will need to explain that otherwise it won’t make sense”. So that’s my first problem…. maybe I’m a PROcrastinating Blogger, the blogger that never quite blogs.
I then think “well if I post about that, I need to make sure I link to some other sites and blogs, so I need to find and read related sites and see what they are saying about what I want to say” so then I might have a look at some other blogs, but then I get caught up in the “oooh this blog is good, and that link takes me to another good blog, and that blog takes to me to another site with something funny on, or possibly something interesting, then a client phones up needing changes to their web site done, then I need a cup of tea, then life gets in the way of letting me remember what it was I was first going to blog about….. etc etc blah blah blah”.
It’s very tricky!
I do admit to being easily distracted, if fact I nearly went off to look at another web site before finishing this post off, maybe I have Attention Deficit ……….. something or other….. what was I saying?
Ah yes, focus, I need focus. I am still new to this though, but I can’t use that as an excuse for too long……. any suggestions for helping me focus are gratefully received.
same things happen to me: I read one blog, which leads me to another, and another, or search on Google, which takes me to one site and another, and so on, and I don’t even notice how I just spent 2 hours reading… So I’m starting to cut down on that, and also don’t read my RSS every day (which takes another couple of hours).
What I find helpful is starting Drafts on my blog, writing several different posts, putting links there, saving for later, adding more content once I think of something, etc… and later I get back to one of them and finish the post.
I do have a few drafts going for the photography blog, but I guess it’s just getting into the blogging habit really