Comments on: Ninja Blogging versus Stream of Spirit Blogging

By: Living in the Updraft of the Wild Goose of the Holy Spirit | Dreaming Beneath the Spires

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 21:33:33 +0000

[…] if I should go and do likewise that blogging feels heavy, a chore, work rather than play. Why? Because the wind of the Spirit is not helping me soar; I have to expend scarce energy with a mighty, exhausting flapping of […]

By: Anita Mathias

Anita Mathias — Thu, 17 May 2012 20:42:27 +0000

Thanks Tanya. Oh blogging is prodigally wasteful of time, and there are times I feel I hate it. I am feeling a tad burnt out at the moment.
Today, I just rewrote a post on something important to me, "soaking prayer" which I feel I have never explained properly, and it was getting annoying to like back to a mediocre post. So I just wrote it out again!
Blessings for health, Tanya, and on stewarding your energy with wisdom! Posts like your forget-me-not post can be used every year, you know. Your audience will keep growing, so it will be new to most of them:-)

By: Tanya Marlow

Tanya Marlow — Thu, 17 May 2012 10:51:11 +0000

Great tips – thank you!
(and so thankful that your biopsy results were benign…)
T xx

By: Anita Mathias

Anita Mathias — Thu, 17 May 2012 10:37:31 +0000

Hi Tanya, After a year of blogging, you will have a wonderful resource--your archive. Nobody remembers posts after a year, so I often refresh, sharpen and repost archive posts after a year. The Ninja blogging, for instance, was an archive post, as was yesterday's on bringing up recalcitrant church-goers. I write fresh stuff most days, but use archive posts when I am tired or busy.
Otherwise, I look at my drafts folder and see what is alive for me.
The key to easy blogging for me is to keep my spiritual life alive. Then ideas flow. When it's sluggish, blogging is an effort.
Blessings,
Anita

By: Tanya Marlow @ Thorns and Gold

Tanya Marlow @ Thorns and Gold — Thu, 17 May 2012 10:12:21 +0000

Hi there - am just catching up with your blog - loving it! I love this post. Speaking as a 'ninja blogger', I often feel intimidated in the other direction - how do you consistently keep writing and finding things to write about so effortlessly??

The pressures on the ninja blogger are 'what if people don't like it this week and that's the only thing I've done?' there's more pressure on the one post.

I write down lots of ideas as I get them, and then when I come to write, I ask myself 'what is most 'present' for me at the moment?' most immediate, most pressing? I write that. Not sure if that is spirit-led or not...!

Loving your ebb and flow - keep doing it!

By: Anita Mathias

Anita Mathias — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:48:00 +0000

Sherrey, what is your blog? When I click on your name, I don't get to it?

Ian, you write well. Don't worry about spelling and grammar. Grammar falls into place for a native speaker with practice in writing.

I find reading things aloud is helpful in checking if you've clearly said exactly what you meant to say. Once we are doing that, we are on our way to writing well. Even after all these years, I sometimes find that my sentences are not clearly expressing what I want to say. Ouch!

By: Sherrey

Sherrey — Mon, 14 May 2012 22:25:51 +0000

Oh, how I found myself in your words! I too wrangle with making sure everything is perfect in my writing to the point of walking away some days. Most teachers of writing say we should free write a lot in order to give ourselves the ability and yes, freedom to write comfortably this way. I fear being too far from the perfect grammarian and editor. :)

Thank you for sharing your concept of Spirit Streaming. As I reach deeply into God's Word and his communication with me, I hope to find the best of my blog posts, whether pure grammar and perfect language or not. I want to serve him by dispersing the gems he shares with me. I believe this is exactly what you are saying here. And if we accomplish that, all's well and good, don't you think? I think I'll save my "worry writing" for my book!

By: Ian Dunford

Ian Dunford — Mon, 14 May 2012 13:30:55 +0000

Hi Anita

I really enjoyed reading this post this afternoon.

Obviously as you are an excellent writer, and published authoress you probablly notice more irregularities in grammar and spelling than I ever possibly could.

Where as with myself I have just one thought, to write it and hope I don't get caught up in the avalanche of my own writting errors.

With the tiny hope some sense can be made of it by others after the avalanche of punctuation, grammar and spelling hits the bottom of the valley.

And then I'm usaully totally mystified because someone has said, that they felt God or inspired or blessed by what I wrote.

Though I am pretty sure if I tried to perfect my obvious lack of skill my writing would be even worse as I would worry about, if it sounded correct. And most likely cease to enjoy writing in my carefree way.

I suppose it could be said, that I'm an irresponsible and prehaps lazy a writer, though I think I'm a happy one.

I really like the thought Streams of the Spirit Writing or Blogging.

I'm adopting that thought.

Thank you for letting me read and comment on your blog post's it's such a lovely pleasure to do both.

Warmest Regards
Ian

By: Anita Mathias

Anita Mathias — Mon, 14 May 2012 11:59:25 +0000

Thanks Aly and Mollie. I was spending too long blogging for the first year or two, so needed to seek God about how long I should spend on it. I have settled on 90 minutes, in which I try to write a 500-800 word blog, post it, and if time remains, draft the next day's.
Which means I am sacrificing perfection of writing, but hopefully, it will still be good enough to speak to people's hearts. It would take much longer to get it unassailably perfect–and that might not be the best use of time.

By: Miss Mollie

Miss Mollie — Sun, 13 May 2012 23:53:02 +0000

We were just talking about this as my daughter and I discussed whether bluebell was one word or two. My husband thought, what difference does it make to my readers? I try to write my best, but realize with time restraints some times that doesn't happen. If my daughter hadn't been reading over my shoulder, bluebell would have been two words. Smile.
Writing should be a joy. I couldn't agree more.