Bloggers and writers need time to recharge. How do you recharge?
Yesterday, I read several comments on one of my Triond articles and replied to them (Blogging 101), I read the pieces of several members of the Triond community and left comments on each one of them and then I put up two posts on my personal blog, Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette. Then I stretched out on the sofa with a book to read and the radio on and read and thought about blogging and writing.
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And as I read, trying to come up with an article about blogging that might end up on Webupon, I began thinking about the difference between blogging and writing.
I remembered reading a report about a new company, Triond, putting the middle man back into blogging.
Blogs are online logs, platforms that allow bloggers to immediately publish whatever they want to publish. This also makes the blogger/writer an online publisher. The blogger is totally responsible for everything. Many times the blogger gets the blog for free; but since this is the real world and we’re talking about the Internet, free blogging is paid for in some kind of way by somebody even if there are no ads on the blog. A title of the blog may appear in a search engine and there will be ads on the page of the search engine. Any network that can put together user-generated content can always figure out later how to monetize that content. Free blogs are never free. It’s just that the blogger doesn’t pay for the blog which is fair since the blogger/writer creates all the content.
Free blogs were the rage until Pay-For-Content sites came along. Now the blogger can work for pay for someone else, like Triond.
After a few hours of reading, thinking and dozing, when I sat down at the computer I had something to blog about. The only decision I had to make was, would I publish the article on the Gazette or on Triond?
How do you recharge?
I take small breaks between articles, projects, or blogs, I go on the treadmill for five or ten minutes, read or pet my cats, when I am home. Sometimes, a cup of coffee or chocolate does it for me. Music, a quick phone call, and if the weather is good a walk or drive. One thing I will avoid at all cost is the TV.
I too take walks… but I think its a matter of waiting for the inspiration to hit you
I do need time out, I have been unwell and have taken time away from the computer, I missed it though but managed to recharge and see a few friends!
Good article, you explained this differences between blogging and writing and it definitely makes since.
Recharging the mind is like recharging a battery. Remember, red to positive, black to ground.
Thanks for sharing info. I will need to research more about the Gazette. This (blogging) is all new to me.
Take a hot shower or go jogging to the park by my house.
I take a few days off and do other things. I need to recharge soon so I will take a few days off after Christmas. Good work, Guy.
Christine
Marie, after a day at the computer I will turn on the tv for the evening news and I’ll watch the news then work the rest of the evening with the tv on; but the tv never goes on before 5pm.
johnnydod, I take walks in the summer. Walking in the winter is no fun.
lillyrose, hope you’re feeling better; seeing old friends can be excellent medicine.
When I hit the mental “wall”, I take a drive. Seeing new things can give me fresh ideas and start the \\\”cogs\\\” turning again.
I take a day off, if I can’t write, I can’t write. During that day I usually read one of my books on creativity. You’re so right, we definitely need to recharge.
I recharge with a good book, a movie and of course ballroom dancing.
Doing anything else besides writing. Taking a break is important. Don’t want to burnout.
diamondpoet, I guess what I was saying is that writing is a bigger tent than blogging.
ken, I wish I could recharge my body as fast as I recharge my mind.
T.S., like all other kinds of writing, blogging has its own rules.
sunshine, I don’t have that much energy. I’ll stick with dozing on the sofa.
Christine, sometimes I have to take a few days off, too. Nothing else will do.
Videomark, in the summer time I take long walks through the park; but in the winter I read stretched out on the sofa.
I designate 1 day to go out and just relax and enjoy the day then back to writing again
valmnz, I do a lot of reading to recharge my batteries, too. The funny thing is I can’t read fiction. It has to be non-fiction.
PR, I love watching ballroom dancing on television. Those dancers are great athletes.
Lady Sunshine, I use to read fiction for hours to relax. Now I have to read non-fiction to relax.
AlmaG, your way to recharge seems the most reasonable or responsible; but I can’t plan that far ahead.
I go about my daily routine of house cleaning, cooking, shopping, talking to friends and family, reading,researching, sewing, and anything else that comes up, then when I find a few minutes I set down at the computer to read, comment and type and as fast as I can.That’s pretty much it for me.
Writing is the way I am recharging myself from my hectic office life and my busy life as mother.
I tend to work on several pieces at once, and I find that jumping from doggerel to free-verse, to essays to fiction and back again keeps my patter snappy, my interest level high, and my attention focused for longer periods.
Then I go play with my kids.
I recharge by playing with my niece and feeding my fish. I think they can be good sources of inspiration.
I normally recharge by getting some fresh air. That gives me inspiration at times. If I want to stay indoors, I either watch TV while working on my collage or paintings OR I read a light hearted book.
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