The Fear of Not Blogging
Sunday, December 07, 2008 | Labels: blog, blogging | |
This blog is relatively new, but I actually started my very first blog in 2004 when a friend of mine introduced me to Motime. I blogged there for about a couple of years until one day, I suddenly got tired.
That was it. I just woke up one day and stopped. I lost steam. You can think of any other cliche out there to describe it, the bottom line is, I lost the zest to keep on blogging.
Now I started blogging again late last year, this time through Wordpress.com. Why and how? Well, I missed it. I did miss blogging and the joy that I get out of writing my thoughts.
I am currently maintaining other blogs, this one is just one of them. Lately I have this fear that perhaps I would be bitten with the bug again, that bug that makes me stop blogging.
Is it a disease? Some of my friends have stopped blogging for months now. Others, like me, started anew with a new blog, a new theme, everything. Half of these people who started blogging again are still on it, while the other half stopped. Again.
Right now, while I don't have the intention of stopping, there is still the fear that I might wake up one morning and don't have the blogging spirit.
It's a fear and the only remedy that I know is to face my fear. How? By keep on blogging.
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my fear is running out of things to write about...that and often times, my brain just blacks out.
yes it's frightening to be offline for a long time!
Hehehe. Fear factor ata yan! It is either you conquer your fear to find new ways to blog.
Or just quit blogging altogether.
I just hope you still blog. If you quit then I mami-miss ko visits mo.
I do encounter that blogging laziness, but I often find ways to make that blogging spirit alive. A visit to others blogs are helpful, doon ako nakakakuha ng new ideas for a new blog post. I also get new ideas when I am away from the computer - I put them down in my notebook. Ang hirap mag-isip ng nasa harap ng PC.
Plurk and Twitter are also helpful to me. Ang bilis ng balita. The next thing I know meron na naman akong iba-blog.
Cheers!
I still have to try Twitter. I've been hearing that it's a great service to connect with other people as well as get great ideas to write about.
thanks!
:)
@ Thess
I know what you're talking about. Writer's block! I hate it when it happens.
@ Carnation
When I first stopped blogging, I didn't feel it was frightening. I only felt that way when I started blogging again. So now I'm determined not to stop. :)
my current blog is my third attempt at online "journal-ing." it is true that sometimes you just run out of things to blog about. or, more often than not, there are other things that keep you from blogging. i think the trick is to just keep posting in your blog, no matter how short or inconsequential the entries may be.