Comments on: Happy 2nd Birthday, Blog. The Amazing Benefits and Considerable Disadvantages of Daily Blogging

By: 2013 Hopes, Goals and Dreams | Dreaming Beneath the Spires

2013 Hopes, Goals and Dreams | Dreaming Beneath the Spires — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 22:36:18 +0000

[…] theology, journaling, or chatting to a best friend—but in public. It’s contributed greatly to my health: psychological, mental, emotional, spiritual, and social, shalom, well-being and […]

By: Anita Mathias

Anita Mathias — Wed, 02 May 2012 21:21:56 +0000

Hi Nicole, Blogging is also the quickest way to get known as a writer. And it has its own satisfactions. But is is a huge time-consuming distraction for a writer!!

By: Nicole Pyles

Nicole Pyles — Wed, 02 May 2012 03:00:01 +0000

I enjoyed this post! I found this post through a google search on blogging daily. I blog about 4 to 5 times a week now and I've been working hard to develop a standing of some kind in the blogosphere! So I've been curious about the benefits. But I can relate to your challenge of doing real writing. I'm a writer, too and doing both can be a huge challenge!

By: Anita

Anita — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:35:26 +0000

Thanks Penelope and Joanna. “Lowering the bar” helps make daily blogging fun. Telling myself it doesn't have to be a magnum opus. 250 words, a single thought is okay. I do have drafts of ideas to play with and develop on days without inspiration, so I don't have to rely on an inspiration each day–can just play with ideas which have come on busy days.
And I have loved “meeting” you guys through blogging!!

By: Joanna

Joanna — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:02:31 +0000

Congratulations on your blog birthday and on the amazing self discipline it must take to post every day. What an achievement!

By: Penelope Swithinbank

Penelope Swithinbank — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:54:39 +0000

oops – BLOGS! Helps to proof read … Sorry!!

By: Penelope Swithinbank

Penelope Swithinbank — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:53:42 +0000

Happy birthday blogging! I have found your bogs a great inspiration - and am so glad to have 'met' you through this. Your journey of blogging is such a help: I only started a few months ago, as a therapeutic aid to try to help me through some PTSS, and so what you have described here is enormously helpful and encouraging. I set out to write a blog a week; recently thought twice a week might be a good idea; and now am inspired by your daily goal.
Please continue to inspire and enthuse the rest of us!
(and enjoy Istanbul!)
-Penelope

By: Anita

Anita — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:42:11 +0000

Hi Mary, It took me hours in the beginning too–and was ruining my life. I think blogging daily helped me to write fast, so that many posts takes just 20 minutes to write and revise, and I can usually do 2 or more in a hour or two. It becomes second nature the more you do it.
Of course, I had been writing for many years before I started blogging, so already had a few writerly tricks up my sleeve:-)

By: marywperry009

marywperry009 — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:44:12 +0000

Congratulations and Happy Birthday! Wow! I look forward to reading your post in detail later today (I get this late at night and open it in the morning)…I have so much to learn from you. I take hours and hours to write one blog.
Yours are inspiring and your breadth is awesome! I am called a somewhat different way, but I love what you write!

By: Anita

Anita — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:41:43 +0000

@Nancy, thanks. Cleaned up the blog design, puttings ads at the bottom. Long posts are tempting--it feels good to deal with a subject comprehensively and satisfyingly, though I am aware that many will stop reading quickly ):-

@ Sipech, I guess I blog first thing, after my quiet time, so I always have time for it. When I try to do other writing first, I rarely have time or energy for a good post, which means stats suffer. Will have to resolve this dilemma.
The other reason I am prolific is that I do not do any paid work at the moment!

@Emma. Thanks. I think the blog flows in tandem with my spiritual life. When that feels flat and lifeless, Christian blogging feels like a chore--and broadening the scope of the blog feels so tempting. But most of the time, I am pretty excited about Christ, and faith in him (fortunately!!).

@Miss Mollie, Wow! I doubt I would have the energy to blog daily if I worked. It's too intense.

Thanks, everyone!