I’m at that point where my blogging has calmed right down. I used to write several blogs a week, either for work or for myself.
But of late, I’ve been struggling to get the inspiration and I’m not sure why. To defend myself on how slack I’ve been, I love writing, as you can probably tell by the way I’m waffling now. I always have enjoyed writing, and I also love helping people review things they’ve written to help them target their audience better. Be it for a client, internal procedures, technical explanations or even personal documents like CVs.
That’s just the way I am, and I enjoy it. So what happened?
I’m using Twitter a lot, and talking to people getting links, re-tweeting and sharing dialogues with people. Maybe that’s the problem. I also still have my large number of feeds attaches to my Newsgator account – I check that on my work machine, home machine and my iPhone. Maybe I have too many feeds and am overloading myself and can’t focus on things.
At Amnesia Razorfish, I’m a project manager, but have involved myself in a lot of other projects. This has seen me moving away from my technical role, where I was quite a pioneer in researching and documenting things for the various companines I work for.
In my personal life, I’ve not been travelling much of late, and I like to keep my more personal adventures to my close friends on Facebook - I’m sure a lot of people understand where I’m coming from with that.
So what’s happened? What’s gone wrong? Maybe I just don’t have time anymore. My trip to work is now a walk, so I’m missing out on that hour of travelling a day that used to let me watch numerous podcasts.
I just don’t know, and I feel like a part of me has gone.
But then on re-reading this blog, maybe I just need to start writing again… Just sit down with a computer, see what happened on the day and write. Maybe that’s what a good personal blog is all about.
Same over here. I really wanted to blog more but it is hard to do it on the side. Especially since you do not want to bore people with your posts. My common rule is that I only blog stuff which I already talked about with my friends or colleagues and got good feedback or a nice onversation in return. That way it is a lot easier to find out what is worth blogging about see it as your personal filter.
Moreover did you ever think about moving away from long posts and more into the direction of tumblr? My recent posts already go into that directions and I am thinking about how I can change my site so that it reflects my blogging style better.
cheers
Thomas
Perhaps it’s just a matter of refinding that love of writing which you seem to have lost.
A lot of people tend to think that blog posts are written for an audience – or “the” audience. But I think all writing should be done for yourself. Otherwise your creative energies just spend themselves “out there”; when really, we’re most interested in what *you* have to say.
Good luck with it!