Friday, February 5, 2010

Blogging...an Addiction??

Every week, I grow anxious about what I'm going to post the next week.  My goal is to post approximately five times/week, usually on week days...I figure that not many people read blogs on the weekends (except for me!), so I usually take some time on the weekend to think about what I might want to post during the next week.  And the same thing happens every single weekend: I think that I've got nothing left to post about; I begin to despair, and think that my love of writing must be dimming.

Then, there's usually some kind of lightning bolt experience - I think of something to post about!  I'm thrilled.  Then I'm amazed because, right on its heels, another idea comes.  Thus, by the end of the weekend, I usually have posts partially or mostly written for the first few days of the week...with other ideas percolating.  Of course, then the week comes, and something happens that I want to blog about, and the posts that I have planned on the weekend fall back - either postponed or forgotten about altogether.  It's a funny thing how that happens.

What's fascinating to me is how much I love the interaction with people who read this blog.  When I'm at home, I look for readers' comments a few times throughout the day...wondering if anyone's read it today and utterly thrilled when I see that there is a comment waiting for me or when I see that someone has signed up to be a follower!  I love it.  I love blogging - whether I'm working on my own blog or following other people's blogs.  For those of you whose blogs I follow or read, I check every single day to see if you've written anything.  I think it's the snoopy side of me - I want in on people's lives.  I am curious about people, want to know how people live their lives and what's important to them.  I want to glean from others' experiences and I often derive some kind of inspiration from them.

Quite simply, I'm addicted to blogging.  I never would have thought it, but there's my confession.  I wonder if there's a blogging counterpart to AA's twelve step program...

2 comments:

  1. Sign me up...I am the same way. Whenever there is a lull in my busy day, I check mine as well. I am usually pretty down if I have no comments, and like you, get excited when I see a comment!!!

    Is it sad? Maybe. Do I care? No.

    My husband is now encouraging me to blog often, as he wants to be able to look back on this like a diary, so we can see what we were doing and thinking the day she was born.

    Well, my students are watching 'Charlotte's Web', in celebration of finishing the novel, so I should maximize my time by tidying up!

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  2. It's getting close to an addiction for me too! It's so great to have another thing to "check." One of my buddies defends blogging as a very inexpensive hobby. I agree.

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