Not Blogging? What’s Stopping You?
I’ve previously mentioned Rebecca Hogue’s initiative to teach an online course on blogging the cancer journey. Last week Rebecca asked the question: what is stopping you from blogging? My first obvious thought was nothing is stopping me, but then I became curious about what may be stopping YOU?
Many of you are regular readers of this blog and I’ve said this before, your comments are worthy of blog posts of their own (Karen, I’m looking at you 🙂 ) So have you ever been tempted to start your own blog? And if so, what’s stopped you? Do you need some practical tips, advice or resources to help you get started? Ask your questions and share your thoughts in the comments section below and let’s see if we can get more of you to enter the blogosphere in 2015.
Lately I lag in my blog posts either because I’m tired after work, or I’m using my writing time for other writing projects, or I’m healing and moving forward so I don’t have the same passion for writing about cancer as I did. I almost feel like I need a break or a shift in direction.
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That is one of the most common reasons I hear Eileen and I see it as a positive move in a new direction. You are a wonderful writer and I look forward to continuing to read your posts, whatever direction you take your writing in.
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I’ve found myself not blogging because of cancer fatigue: tired of thinking about it and looking to focus my time and energy elsewhere. I think about blogging often, though, and know that it’s something that is important to me, even when I’m resistant to it. Perhaps the best answer is: it’s complicated!
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Thank you, Beth. That means a lot to me. We have a mutual admiration society. 🙂
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And so it is with life Nancy 😉 I miss when you don’t blog and you are so often on my mind x
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What has stopped me in the past was lack of time and exhaustion. Then I made a commitment to you, Marie, that I’d blog once a week, and that has helped. I’m mostly consistent, although when life gets really busy for me, I can’t post a blog post that week. I relate to Eileen’s comment about writing about cancer. Eileen, I’d read anything you would write about. I love your blogs!
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Time is a huge factor Beth and it is one that is so often cited. I see your blog as having a really good level of consistent quality output and I am a big fan x
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I am my own biggest stop sign. I have a million ideas, over 100 drafts that I start but never finish. I wake up in the night with blog ideas all the time. But I’m a perfectionist, and a slow writer, and I need time between drafts to reread and edit. So I blog once a month (my minimum blogging goal that I set for myself when I started… that if I can’t muster a blog a month, I shouldn’t blog at all).
The WEGO challenge has helped spur me on. And you, Marie, have also helped me blog more. I think I need new goals. Maybe new group blog challenges…
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I miss when you don’t blog Renn so I will have to muster up more blogging challenges especially for you 😉
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I’m game!
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I just took a holiday. It was a smart decision. The time away made me feel connected to the quietness and simplicity of home. Though, I’m back at it again. My trick is to not write drafts. Drafts die. Write in the post box, and let ‘er fly with that publish button – typos be damned!
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Catherine that’s a great idea! Thank you!
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What they all said ^^^
I want to blog. I’m not short of material. It seems easier when i’m in deep pain – i write it out. But that doesnt always hold true, thats as often when i stop. I have hundreds of halfbaked drafts. But i fight against being cancer girl. Or victim of violence girl. Or girl with the ex hellbent on suicide. I guess i just get tired and life gets complicated so i bury myself and struggle to focus on what i really want.
But its telling that i always come back to you, darling Marie, you are like a little candle that never quite goes out in my complicated world. So very glad you are always here xxx
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I admire all the ladies who blog. I have learned a lot about we deal with our cancer journey and helps me to understand how others are effected. I guess its a fear of writing something that leaves us vureable or that nobody will read what we have to say. Is it important enough? Am I opening myself up for criticism from others? Anyway, thank you all for writing and being so understanding
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