by Gaz
Whats Holding You Back From Blogging?
Since I haven’t accepted a meme tag for a few weeks, I’ve decided to participate in a group writing project from JohnChow.com. A few short weeks ago, Gary Jones guest posted an article entitled What’s Holding You Back From Blogging?, and set a challenge for participants to write a little on that subject and then to put a new post on their own blog every day. I’ve consistently beaten my at least 2 posts per week resolution in all my Groundhog Resolution Review Days, and this is a great opportunity for me to take it to the next level. So, I’ve written I will post in my blog daily for 20 days straight on a floating sticky, and placed conspicuously in the top left corner of my desktop. When I’ve posted this article, I’ll change it to read 19 days straight to give myself some positive feedback.
And to answer the question: I think the main thing holding me back from blogging is time. To be more precise, I need to consistently dedicate a little time at the start of each day to writing an article for that day. I’m also concerned about being careful not to succumb to the temptation to post drivel just to put something new here every day… if I can’t write something genuinely informative or entertaining, then far better to write nothing at all. My antidote to that particular issue is to keep my moleskine planner with me so that I can jot down post ideas as the inspiration occurs. So far, that list has always grown faster than I can write up the ideas in it and I suspect that will continue to be the case even as I ratchet up my post frequency.
It’s certainly true that I can see my traffic drop noticeably if I miss posting for more than 2 or 3 days now, and similarly it creeps back up if I post for 5 or 6 consecutive days. So far, the longest number of consecutive posts has been a paltry 9, so I’m curious to see whether traffic continues to rise as I break through that record.
If you have a blog, and you wish you had a bit more traffic, why not take up the challenge too? It can’t do your blog any harm to get a linkback from John Chow!
