It is Hard to Write
February 3rd, 2010
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Reason Not To Blog: It is too hard to write
Then don’t. That’s the simple solution. Stop driving yourself crazy and beating your head against the wall.
And if you can’t. Then deal with it. You will have to find a way.
Writing and blogging is a bitch. There are times when you are in the groove.
I had been slowly writing a post a day for a few weeks when I wrote this post. Today I edited about 7 to get them ready for publishing, wrote another 3 and came up with about 20 new ideas for articles.
I am not bragging about this accomplishment. I am thankful because I know how that I am an expert at fighting writing. And that’s about what it is. If I sit down and actually force myself to start writing and not stop for at least 15 minutes, I usually come back with something if only the drive to try the same thing the next day until I finally do come back with something good.
But I fight it. Call it useless. Let it conveniently slip my mind. Let other tasks get in the way.
With an hour a day, anyone can see good results from a blog within a year. I know that. You will not at the top of the heap, but you will be able to say it is worth it. I know this because it happened to me and the traffic has been pretty steady through my hiatus due to good anchor content.
So I will give my blog that hour a day or close to whip it back into shape. I planning on continuing to post this series or a post 3 times a week leaving more time to fix things up around here and come up with a full plan of attack.
But once you have gone through the process of just forcing yourself to write, to keep the pen moving for at least 15 minutes, every day until it becomes habit, it sticks with you. Your writing practice has memory and after a few days of writing daily, blogging is not hard at all.
I know this. I guess the solution is not to forget this and let other things get in the way.
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Thanks for this nice post. I found your title very catchy and interesting. Keep sharing and thanks a lot.
very useful post, thnks
I think that a rest (of body and mind) solve all problems, and blogger problems in particular.
I totally agree. When I write I tend to do things in batches. Say brainstorm ideas or finish editing. Sometimes I just get in a writing “mode” and can write high quality content for hours. Blogging is not like digging a ditch. If your brain isn’t that sharp you’re probably best using your time for something else (such as networking).
I agree that it is easier to write in batches. I generally prepublish a bunch of content. I find that I have to be in the right “mental” state in order to write, when I’m in the moment I take advantage of it.
I think the hardest in writing is to find an idea to write about it. If you are impressed by something, it’ll be easy to write article about it
I agree it gets hard to write sometimes. Somekind of feeling gets accumulated that becomes a block for writing after a continued writing session. But I found that it can be overcome if we try to find out why.
I recognize the reason for this. Most of the time it is because I am not getting more ideas of flow of thoughts which is due to lack of sufficient research or thinking on the topic. Then I post them to twitter first as an idea. Or read more on the topics elsewhere and think for some time.
I have noticed that most of the time this is the problem. Not having a concrete idea or not having enough details on the topic I am about to write. So I fix it by doing some research, reading or thinking or planning out step by step by flow. Though this increases the overall time spent it is a lot better than entering into writer’s block which lasts for even more time.
Haha you are so right. I have so many things to say and have so many opinions about everything, I just dont seem to have enough time in the day. Yesterday I was off from work and wanted to write few things but have I had a chance to do that? Nooooooo. All I did was read your blog.
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yes its really hard to right but you have to..and moreover, writing high-quality posts i am scared whether I would be able to replicate my blog post’s quality in the future…thats a real pain..
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