Blog burnout
Posted: May 29th, 2010 | Author: Tara | Filed under: Personal | 5 Comments »Earlier this week I was rightly called on my lack of posting by Rhett. I started strong and was excited about this blog, but for various reasons, I’ve burned out and even quicker than I thought I would. Work got busy and stressful, I started playing more video games and my RSS feed reader got overwhelming.
I wish I could say I have a plan, but I don’t. A part of me likes the current format of the blog: take the links I would have put on Facebook and put them here instead. It’s easier to find them later when I want to refer back.
Also, I liked writing up book reviews. Thing is, I haven’t been reading much either. The 95 Book challenge started to get pretty damn un-fun when I realized I was reading poetry and comic books just to try and keep up with the numbers. That feels a lot like cheating and it’s hard to read a lot what with my full-time job, two crazy dogs and a marriage I like actively investing in. Maybe that’s just me, but I suspect it’s a lot easier for the people who are doing lit degrees and need to read a lot of it for classes anyway. But I digress.
So… I’d like to ask you, the 8 people who have subscribed to this blog (most of whom I know personally)–is there anything in particular you’d like to see? I’m considering a few things:
- Continue with the current format, but try to update more often (i.e. do the reviews, post links)
- Make this more of a personal blog, talk about some of the day-to-day
- Do a hybrid of 1 and 2
If you have any thoughts, please do leave a comment. I don’t want to close this, but I need to figure out what to actually do with it.
Related posts:
- A decision
- At The Movies going off the air
- Netflix November
- Today for lunch
- 95 Books: The 95 Bookening (aka Let’s Try This Again)
Can’t say I subscribe to the site (or any), or have an opinion, but I did want to say that I do enjoy reading it when I find myself here!
Thanks Ben! I talked with Neil and I’m leaning toward the hybrid approach. I think part of why I got bound up with it is that I was restricting the format too much.
First, hybrid works for me. Second, don’t worry so much about keeping up with the book count and just read for the pleasure of it. Numbers aren’t necessarily a good thing. I’m keeping track to find out what percentage of my wife’s library’s circulation is just me being bored. And I’m only as high as I am number-wise because I was not working for four months and now have an hour’s commute by train. (Think about that fact when you realize how R&W must have gotten their totals that high.)
Very much appreciate the feedback. You’re right about the books. And really, stepping back and not worrying about the numbers meant I started reading again this weekend.
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