Getting on Track

Okay, so I haven’t been all that diligent about posting blogs. In fact, the last time I posted was October first which is now over a month ago. Not very writerly of me, is it? I am wondering if my lack of commitment to blogging has to do with the fact that I’ve been very loosey-goosey about the posting schedule. I’ve taken the approach that when I think of something to write about I’ll do it. But sometimes ideas for blog topics come to me when I’m not even near my computer, and by the time I get to it, I’ve forgotten them. And life has a habit of getting in the way of my best intentions. More often than not my desk time is usurped by other activities. When I do sit down to work, I first deal with items that have a due date or timeline, and then I use the rest of my writing time to make progress on my novel. For some reason, blogging seems to fall by the wayside.

In an effort to keep myself on track with my blogging, I’ve decided to set up a posting schedule. Since this is an author’s blog, I feel that most of my topics should focus on the practicalities of writing, the methodology, the business of it, or just aspects of being an author. However, I sometimes have the urge to write about things that happen in my personal life, unconnected to writing. Today, when I sat down to write this blog post, I made a list of topics, and they covered quite a range. No longer can I say I don’t know what to blog about.

This inspired me, and as of this week, I will no longer blog “once in a while.” I have decided to blog twice a week: On Tuesdays about writing and on Thursdays about anything else in my life.

Ha, you might think. Why does she expect to blog twice a week, every week, when she was barely blogging once a month?! My answer to that is, simply because I now have a schedule and a commitment. My family will tell you that I’ve always been driven by a schedule. It’s worth a shot, isn’t it?

So here goes. This is my first Tuesday posting, not specifically about writing, but, in today’s world of Internet and Social Media, it is certainly a task essential to my career as an author. See you on Thursday!