Comments on: Blogging without Motivation http://www.meryl.net/2007/07/30/blogging-without-motivation/ Content on writing, tech, business, marketing, social media Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:03:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: jen http://www.meryl.net/2007/07/30/blogging-without-motivation/comment-page-1/#comment-383898 jen Wed, 01 Aug 2007 03:58:02 +0000 http://meryl.net/2007/07/30/blogging-without-motivation/#comment-383898 <p>I wrote a post about how I Get my blogging groove back time and time again (http://jaycee.typepad.com/semantics/2007/07/how-i-get-my-bl.html) but sometimes no matter what, I just don't feel like writing. This is usually when I'm down in the dumps emotionally and I know that if I write my emotions will show through.</p> I wrote a post about how I Get my blogging groove back time and time again (http://jaycee.typepad.com/semantics/2007/07/how-i-get-my-bl.html) but sometimes no matter what, I just don’t feel like writing. This is usually when I’m down in the dumps emotionally and I know that if I write my emotions will show through.

]]> By: Meryl http://www.meryl.net/2007/07/30/blogging-without-motivation/comment-page-1/#comment-382888 Meryl Mon, 30 Jul 2007 18:24:23 +0000 http://meryl.net/2007/07/30/blogging-without-motivation/#comment-382888 <p>Matthew, thanks for posting your experience in dealing with motivation (or lack thereof) when it comes to blogging. You make a great point on how mood can affect our motivation. That's why I believe in creating habits -- they help you be in the mood to do whatever it is you do first thing in the morning, right before lunch and so on.</p> <p>Considering the numerous blogs out there and our limited time -- it's hard for the most wonderful blogs to see the number of readers climb. So I try to remind myself that blogging helps me practice writing and gives the Web site fresh content. It's also about providing valuable content to readers. Even if the readers aren't there -- prospective clients might check out the blog.</p> <p>Your site is well-laid out as it's always easy to find what I'm looking for. But I do understand getting tired of seeing the some old design. Hang in there!</p> Matthew, thanks for posting your experience in dealing with motivation (or lack thereof) when it comes to blogging. You make a great point on how mood can affect our motivation. That’s why I believe in creating habits — they help you be in the mood to do whatever it is you do first thing in the morning, right before lunch and so on.

Considering the numerous blogs out there and our limited time — it’s hard for the most wonderful blogs to see the number of readers climb. So I try to remind myself that blogging helps me practice writing and gives the Web site fresh content. It’s also about providing valuable content to readers. Even if the readers aren’t there — prospective clients might check out the blog.

Your site is well-laid out as it’s always easy to find what I’m looking for. But I do understand getting tired of seeing the some old design. Hang in there!

]]> By: Matthew Stibbe (Bad Language) http://www.meryl.net/2007/07/30/blogging-without-motivation/comment-page-1/#comment-382839 Matthew Stibbe (Bad Language) Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:49:22 +0000 http://meryl.net/2007/07/30/blogging-without-motivation/#comment-382839 <p>I've been going through a bit of a blogging plateau for a few months. I moved house and got busy with some other projects and my posting rate dropped, my enthusiasm sagged and my stats (which had been on a constant upward trend) faltered.</p> <p>It's odd how small inflections of mood and experience can, if we let them, change our behaviour significantly. I think perhaps negative ones have a bigger impact than positive ones.</p> <p>I sat down over the weekend and made a plan for what I want to achieve with my blog, what I hope readers will get from it and why I am doing it. I also started to think about redesigning and reengineering aspects of it (I'm a geek at heart so techie details are very engaging for me).</p> <p>It's too early to tell whether this reappraisal and restart will work in the long run but I certainly feel more enthusiastic about my blog and I'm remembering some of the passion and excitement I felt when I first launched it 18 months ago.</p> <p>More importantly, standing back from the content and doing my job - marketing, communicating and writing - on my own work has helped me focus more on what the blog is about and this, in turn, has given me a lot of ideas about what to write and an urgency about writing them.</p> I’ve been going through a bit of a blogging plateau for a few months. I moved house and got busy with some other projects and my posting rate dropped, my enthusiasm sagged and my stats (which had been on a constant upward trend) faltered.

It’s odd how small inflections of mood and experience can, if we let them, change our behaviour significantly. I think perhaps negative ones have a bigger impact than positive ones.

I sat down over the weekend and made a plan for what I want to achieve with my blog, what I hope readers will get from it and why I am doing it. I also started to think about redesigning and reengineering aspects of it (I’m a geek at heart so techie details are very engaging for me).

It’s too early to tell whether this reappraisal and restart will work in the long run but I certainly feel more enthusiastic about my blog and I’m remembering some of the passion and excitement I felt when I first launched it 18 months ago.

More importantly, standing back from the content and doing my job – marketing, communicating and writing – on my own work has helped me focus more on what the blog is about and this, in turn, has given me a lot of ideas about what to write and an urgency about writing them.

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