Today I’m right at the halfway point of my month-long “blog everyday” experiment, and I can’t help but declare how difficult this is.
Here’s are some deep but off-the-cuff thoughts on what it feels like to blog every day:
The Not So Good
1. My post quality has declined.
By far this is the toughest reality. I used to give myself a week or even more to craft a post, and I dared not publish it until I was sure it was decent.
But now that I MUST publish everyday, I find myself scrambling ideas to throw together, which isn’t good. I don’t like to rush writing, and I feel like I’m back in the newsroom with a story deadline looming every day. It’s been edgy. [Read more...]
The answer is yes.
It doesn’t take much to see how shamefully little I’ve been posting here, and I want to address this because I feel many of us suffer from the same blog starvation-atrophy affliction.
I concede: I will never get rich blogging and I don’t recommend you try it, either. It worked well for some people at the right time, but it’s not ever going to work for me…and likely you.