Oh I fall into the trap. I spend every morning and every evening checking my Feedly RSS feeds and reading many awesome blogs. Lately I’ve been reading a few who apologize for not having blogged in a while and I start to feel it. Holy cow! I haven’t blogged in a while! I need to write a blog post!
But you know what? If I have nothing to say, or more accurately, if all I’m going through hasn’t coalesced into words then I don’t push it. It isn’t going to work anyway.
I call that the Tao of Blogging. I write a post when it’s time. Not before and not after. So when I feel that I need to blog or should write another blog I have to stop and ask myself, “is it because it’s time or is it because of some external pressure?” If it’s because of some external pressure then I’m working on being okay not forcing myself to write a new post.
If it’s because it’s time, then the blog post flows freely. Sometimes a post flows freely then I stop and have to finish it later. That tends to feel more productive. Sometimes I have a few posts come out and then I do that cool things of scheduling them to come out in a few days! That’s so hard to do because I want to publish them all now.
But when it’s not time to publish, I have to stop sweating it. It’ll come when it’s time and when I’m ready. 🙂
