How to find time for writing and where to get it
Submitted by Nik on 3 December, 2007 - 14:04.
 
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Ok I apologize, I've not written since Friday. There is always time for writing if you don't wasting it by surfing on the net. This is perhaps our worst enemy. We search and browse endless times before our browser (hope it's Firefox) without making any progress. Yes perhaps you learn nice things but you never get your job done.
Internet is such a good and infomative medium, but it can destroy you instead of improving you. Internet is very good and very helpful if you want to find information. But if you don't know what you searching for then you 've got a big problem.
This is a lesson that I learned well in past years. I've been researching all the time without purpose and I was never satisfied. I kept researching until a Sunday thought that it would be nice to write something down in paper with my Parker fountain pen that I so much love.
I was wondering what to write and what would make a great article.
Well I found now what makes an article good. It makes your love for writing and not the sources we find. I don't know what to write every day, but I know so much things that the time would not be enough to write them down.
Don't you feel the same ?
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Sometimes, it seems
Sometimes, it seems habitual, like I can't get up in the morning without writing something immediately. Make it a habit like breathing and you'll never stop writing.
It seems that I find myself hooked to this thing called blogging even though I have just started.
Um...no. Things change
Um...no. Things change around the holidays for women like me with gigantic families that live in all parts of the globe. Not to mention baking some 500 cookies for clients, parties, your husband! And, while his ADD keeps him surfing and getting distracted, I had to put together, either by wrapping individually, bagging with paper, bagging with cellophane and ribbon, plus the hand written cards, a total of 200 items. I also have a business that gets busy during the holidays and I have to keep up with demand as well as custom orders, communication, and shipping. Plus the friend that visits, and the friend that's pregnant I get to go to a doctor's appointment with. And, people are driving SO nuts ot there, I actually got hit by a car! I had to go get x-rays, stop moving and my husband got sick so I've spent three days taking care of him.
I think this post kinda pissed me off, actually. It seems very benign, until, at some point, you realize, you may have things in common with people, but your life does not parallel everyone's AT ALL!
I'd love the time to blog and surf! I only have a few seconds right now while I wait for my husband to finish emptying the dishwasher before I go and make 12 dozen cookies, 1 pan of brownies, and 4 pumpkin breads before tomorrow.
Whew!
Write and research what you
Write and research what you love and you'll enjoy each experience. I'm working on a mainstream ms and my voice is stronger than ever.
You are so right.
JJ
The internet has given me a
The internet has given me a lot of freedom, but you are exactly right; I have also fallen victim to lost time. It is very hard to stay on task when you have so many ways you can go so fast.
You can feel that way and to
You can feel that way and to work around that is to do things with purpose.
I'd like to know where you want to take this blog and what do you imagine you'd post about if you had 8346 RSS subscribers and 157,000 unique visitors a month.
This question will make you think about your blog with purpose. You'd want community participation, you'd want your ad positions set up, you'd want a nicer design, you'd want better site functionality, .... and so on.
Always work within constant change and expectation. Then you'll know what needs to be done next.
Remember, time is fleeting. The more you can do today the more you can expect tomorrow. Success is relative to movement. Just do as much as you can today as if 1,000,000 visitors were coming tomorrow to see your blog.
Nik, if I know you just from reading your blog I know you'll think about this and meditate on why it's the philosophy for success.
I like your work! Keep it up, and pick it up, seriously. :D
I even want to create a unique header for your blog. I downloaded your header image to work on but I thought I'd ask you what you'd like instead. So what do you want it to look like? Like mine?
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