Time to start blogging again!
After I discovered Twitter, my blogging in general largely fell by the wayside. Really, I think that’s something that’s good about Twitter, when it comes down to it: like a magnet, it draws away much of the content that really had no business being a blog post in the first place. But I digress.
I’ve been watching with admiration as a few of my friends — I’m thinking of Rob Donoghue in paticular — have taken up the habits of deliberate, daily posting. I’m not sure yet if that’s the thing I’m looking to do here, at least not that “aggressively”. I can’t switch over to a new mode where my blogging becomes as much of a time-demand as the stuff I’m getting paid to do. But all the same, given how well it’s been working for Rob, something in the same ballpark will work as an initial goal.
Part of the trick I think is that while blogging is suitable to content too big for twitter, that doesn’t mean it should rise up and demand incredibly lengthy posting. Or as Rob quite nicely put it:
… the big lesson has been that I need to write less. Not less often, but rather, shorter material.
So that’s going to be my initial aim here at Deadly Fredly. Short subjects, quick snapshots of thought, done as regularly as I can manage. Once I’ve done enough of these that I can get a grip on how often is reasonable (twice a week? three times? once a day Monday to Friday? the daily insanity of my good friends?), I’ll turn that particular emergent property into a policy of practice.
Baby steps, for now. Stay tuned.
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Twice a week is probably sane – you’ll feel less guilty if you decide to increase the frequency than if you decide to decrease it.
Unless it’s EV pictures. In that case, no frequency is high enough.
-Rob D.
Yeah, a Monday/Friday split might be an interesting way to go, with the middle getting filled in if I feel like it. Or maybe avoid picking days entirely and just say “two per week”.
Happy you set yoursel free from the 140 character restrictions. Clean and clear design. I always love a blog or site that is easy to navigate and well organized!
LL&P (old school)
June
Gorgeous layout! Very easy to read. That was the first thing that immediately leaped into my mind.
I am excited to see what content you produce, no matter the frequency!
Blogging daily, with… 1-2k blog posts, has done me pretty well, I think.
Looking forward to seeing more, here! Great blog look. Love the huge, clean font.
– c.
Can’t take credit for the website design. It’s all made possible thanks to the crazy-awesome free wordpress theme communities out there!
Glad to see you dipping your toe into the blog-scene. It really is a great way to get those thoughts out there that bear further scrutiny/exploration than what tweeting can provide. Moreover, it has the upside of acting as a form of viral marketing for your future works.
This should be good. [settles down with a glass and a comfy chair]
Handsome design here, Fred. Good luck in this endeavor — I’d love to follow your lead one day soon.
I’m looking forward to following your new blogging endeavor. As someone who has never really hit my rhythm with blogging, I hope to learn a thing or two.
Best of luck,
JJ
Honestly if you want to learn a thing or two, go look at Rob Donoghue’s “Some Space To Think” (I linked to his what-I’ve-learned post just before the quotation from him above). He’s been doing a solid job with the effort.
Ok, the quote makes more sense in context. So now I have two new (to me) blogs to learn from.
Thanks.
*Feed added*
Rob’s been inspiring me to blog more too. Not that I’m doing it enough yet, and I’ve found that since I’ve started blogging again I’m not up to my own standards anymore. I think that’s partially to do with the fact that Rob, Chuck, Berin and a few others are such stellar committed writers compared to most of the blogs I was following before that I’m just feeling like I’m not up to speed with this pack yet. It’ll come, I’ve always been one to hang out with people that are better than me until I become as good as them.
So anyhow… back out of tangentville, good to see you blogging and I’m looking forward to your stuff.
Hi Fred, I never got both feet on the Twitter wagon, so I was kind of wondering what’d happened to you.
It’s an interesting theme- I might have to see how it looks with my own blog… One more thing: Is this blog going to replace “Driving Blind?” The posts there all seem to say that the stuff was posted there first.
Anyhow, good luck with the regular posting. I’ve been having a good run so far, myself.
-Phillippe
This blog is cross-posted to Driving Blind. Folks can follow it wherever. I might do some DB specific posts, and at present I’m not looking to pull all my DB posts over into this one, but I do expect that this will be my more frequently used site for blogging.