The Blogging Dilemma

Lately, an old friend contacted me to tell me she has just started a blog. I have been meaning to pop over there, but I realized yesterday that I honestly haven't had the time because my mind is crammed with all the things on my to-do list. Morale of the story - I forgot. Until last night at any rate and that was because I couldn't sleep for thinking about my to-do list.

This made me realize how easy it is to start a blog and have no one read what you write. One of the main reasons is that if you don't read other people's blogs you don't have much chance of them taking the time to read yours. My busy schedule doesn't give me much time beyond the bracket I concede myself to read posts by agents who blog and the messages in all the writing lists I'm on. I use this blog mainly to keep writing, even when I'm not writing as much as I should.

Blogging, to many of us, is like being at the beach. You know you're expected to wade into the water, but you're not sure if you want to. You stick your toe in and then cringe as the water temperature clashes with that of your body. Then you look around. Everybody else is swimming and they seem to be enjoying themselves. You might as well join in. How long you stay in the water before you get goosebumps is another issue altogether.

Nephele Tempest has an interesting blog post at http://www.romancingtheblog.com/blog/ titled To Blog Or Not To Blog, where she discusses the utility of blogs for published authors and how a website may or may not be an interesting alternative.

If you're a writer or an aspiring one, go take a look.