I have suddenly found myself not writing. I have suddenly found myself spending more time reading others’ blogs instead of working on my own. Is this some kind of online quicksand? Is this the trap under the leaves?
At first it was a great source of inspiration and and a great way to learn and make contact with others, and now I find it sucking my time away. How do I break free?
How do others balance reading others’ blogs with putting the time and energy into their own? Do you assign a time limit to each? Do you sit down and make sure you write your own posts before looking at others on any given day?
My friends, please advise me and drag me out of here before I sink…glub, glub…
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My advice would be: assign your writing time and make it holy. Whatever you do outside of that time is your on affair, but inside the writing time nothing may interrupt (except sudden death).
My blogging time is usually the hour it takes me to get to work. Or any few spare minutes in the day. But writing time is usually on the way home, and nothing may distract from that.
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Thanks for your visit and comment E.A. I feel like “un-following” some blogs to keep myself from being tempted, but I need to just learn to filter, I think. I started doing the photography “exercises” and I’m enjoying them too much apparently. 🙂
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I think this is part of the process. When I started my blog, I looked at other blogs for inspiration and ideas. Now I know what I want to do with my blog, so I visit other blogs because I enjoy the blogs and the people behind them.
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I agree that it is part of the process, but when it takes over??? Time to lock myself in a room, I guess. 🙂
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