Four Ways to Post When Dealing with Blogging Burnout

Monday, March 3rd, 2008 at 10:27 AM | Category: Blogging, Life Tips, Links, Meryl's Notes Blog, Writing 4 comments

Been experiencing the worst blogging burnout in the past month or so. It could simply be because I’m busier than usual. I typically blog first thing to get it out of the way and proceed with my day. But sometimes it takes too much time and I want to jump into client work.

How do you deal with burnout? No one wants to take a break from blogging and risk losing momentum. Burnout typically prevents me from coming up with a strong essay-style entry or expanding on notes I’ve saved for a rainy post.

I’ve seen those long lists of blog post ideas. While great resources, when you’re this burned out… a lot of them don’t sound good or you don’t want to read through the list to find the shortcuts. Here is a short list of what helps me through it:

  1. Post less rather than stop altogether. I shoot for at least twice a week.
  2. List links to interesting Web pages and sites — I do this every Friday. Takes little time as I collect links over the week.
  3. Collect resources from a favorite or interesting topic such as 175+ information visualization resources. Sure, this takes more than a sitting to do, but I added to it over time and when the resources slowed down… I posted; hence, the + in the name so I can keep updating it.
  4. Write a short comment on another blogger’s entry, an article, a hot topic. We all have opinions or thoughts about something, so this should compel you to write a quick entry.

I’ve seen those long lists of blog post ideas. While great resources, when you’re this burned out… a lot of them don’t sound good or you don’t want to read through the list to find the shortcuts.

All righty! I’ve got my post for the week. icon smile Four Ways to Post When Dealing with Blogging Burnout

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