Still Blogging

Being at the KMWP Monday through Friday has given me much more time to blog than I normally used to give myself.  Actually, it probably isn’t even more time; it’s just a consistent amount of time every day.  That seems to help.  My reflections are also shorter than the posts I used to try writing, and that has helped as well.  Blog posts don’t have to be long essays, and perhaps they shouldn’t be–that’s another form for another kind of website (or a different medium?  Reading longer essays doesn’t feel quite right online).  Now I just have to figure out what to say on a consistent basis.

My wife kept a consistently updated blog for several months.  Her interests are food and gardening, so she posted meal plans and photos of her work.  Then she quit for a while; then she started another blog, Domestipunk.  The name really suits her.  It seems that when she keeps it up, though, that she puts a lot of work into it, that it can take a solid hour or more of her time almost every day.  I may still keep up with this, but I also need to figure out how to manage my time so that I can do it.  And my fiction writing, which has lagged during the Institute, still has to take priority.

Tired

Last night I managed to get eight hours of sleep for the first time in days, but the recovery process continues.  Now that I’ve finished the demo, I finally feel like I can focus more fully on the writing part in this writing institute.  Revisions and expansions on my morning work are happening slowly, but ideas are trickling out of my head and onto the paper pretty consistently.

The blogging has been fun, but since I have started and abandoned four or five blogs in the past, I’m trying to look for that moment when I would normally start to lose interest.  Since I’m posting every day, I’m trying to find that point where my interest falls off a cliff and plunges into a river full of crocodiles.  I want to get over that hump and find enough of a balance between blogging, other writing, and the rest of my life that I can continue all three without neglecting any of them.  If, however, I find that there is not enough time to do both blogging and other writing, then I might have to do more of the latter and less of the former.  I have managed to keep a Twitter feed going for almost two years, but blogging takes more than 140 characters at a time.  We’ll see.