Of Writers and Prose: To Blog or Not to Blog.
May 6, 2024 3 Comments
That is the question.
I’ve had this blog since 2011, and before that, I was on Livejournal for a couple years. I even had an account on Blogger ‘back in the day’, and even though I don’t get a lot of traffic for my posts, I still like doing it. Has it become harder to think of topics? Yes, especially about writing, but I’ve added so much more content over the last few years that I think if I miss a writing post every now and then, it’s all fine.
Over the last month I backed away from doing any writing on anything. Personal matters had to be taken care of and it left me drained to the point I didn’t want to do any writing. I’m glad to say that this rough patch is over, and May will see me back at my desk pounding away at my keyboard, but it’s left a thought lingering in my head.
To blog or not to blog?
I enjoyed the time off, and sometimes keeping to my blog schedule drains all the fun out of it. I’m not ashamed to say that if I gave up blogging altogether, I wouldn’t be sad. I have noticed that many blogs that I follow aren’t posting as much as a few years ago. I remember when people would say you had to blog every day in order to keep your subscribers happy. I did that and it damn near killed me to think of something every, single, day. It’s impossible and I found myself posting short one or two sentences to keep readers reading. It was hard and I eventually gave up doing the daily posts and put together the schedule I have now. I post 2-3 times a week, and only between Monday to Friday. Each post is something different, and I’ve found this to be so much easier. As I see it, bombarding readers every day with a few sentences of whatever, doesn’t seem like a good way to keep people interested in what you’re doing. If I see a post from a blogger who hasn’t posted in a while, I’m more apt to actually read that instead of deleting it.
I’m going to try and keep my blogging schedule the way it is. I like the topics I’m writing about, and I hope you do too, so if you don’t see anything from me for a while, take heart that whatever I was going to blog about, I didn’t find it interesting enough write about it.
For those of you who keep blogs, how do you do it? Are you and everyday poster or just when you feel like it?