Once again, life has happened and I have found it difficult to update this blog as regularly as I would like to. My goal here has generally been that I’d like to have daily posts on the topic of my writing life and what it means to be a writer. However, I seem to be stuck in this cycle where I fall behind and then I feel bad about falling behind which makes me disinclined to write more so I put off doing a new post even longer.
I’m a little bit embarassed about this. I would never let it happen on a blog that I do for my clients. I haven’t let it happen much on my other blog, Diary of a Smart Chick, which is a collection of thoughts about (and links to) the topics of my current writing projects. And yet it consistently happens here.
So, I want to make a commitment to writing for this blog on a regular basis. I won’t say daily because that might be too much but I want to get at least 3 posts up per week here. I have some exciting things planned for this blog in terms of some guest visitors, reviews and giveaways so I really don’t want to let things slide.
Here it is then – my commitment to this blog for my readers as well as for myself. I want to be present here on this blog so that it can become the kin of active conversational community that I know it has the potential to become. And I want to commit to it because this part of my writing life is important to me even though I let other things crowd in on it all of the time.
I would love to hear your thoughts about how to best make a commitment to your own blog when you write full-time for others professionally. Please share!
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August 23rd, 2009 at 6:35 am
I completely understand this as I have my own writing blog that is on the list of things to do each day, as well as client work.
I normally try to focus on doing my writing blog first, but that rarely happens! Having said that I usually have an idea for a blog post laid out in advance so I can get straight down to writing for it when I have a moment.
I try for every other day at the minimum and that seems to be working. And just like you I have good plans for the future – so that keeps me inspired as well!
September 19th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
I’m a software developer who likes to write. I’ve had quite a few things published for pay and that’s been a lot of fun. I wanted a better way to inspire myself to write every day so I wrote a program called the Daily Journal. It’s based on the date – each day there is an empty doc. ready to be written in. It also allows me to paste anything — pictures, files of any kind, anything that you’ve found on the web – links, copied text, anything.
Any links you paste in are clickable and will open your default browser later.
The program is easy to use, allows you to archive all your daily entries (for backup) and allows you to search your entries for any text you’ve ever typed.
It’s cool because then you have a searchable journal of what you were doing on specific days. It’s especially nice if your doing a lot research.
And the really nice thing : it’s FREE. I do ask for a donation if you end up using it a lot, but it’s up to you if you even do that. Try it out and I think you’ll really like it. You can download the installer at : http://daylightcomputers.com/downloads.aspx