How do you come back from a blog layoff?
What does it take to get you back into the flow of posting again? For me, I really have to be focused, and just do it. I’ve tried to have a grand plan, but rarely does that work. How do you come back from not posting for a long period of time?
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3 Responses to “How do you come back from a blog layoff?”
Posted by: James D Kirk - 09/13/2007
Being “forced” to have a blog layoff is one thing (vacation, illness, other events out of the blogger’s control), but how does one come out of a blogger’s block (is that a coinable phrase?
) Thinking that is what really got me on the track of asking that question.
Posted by: Coach Deb - 03/15/2008
ya know - this is almost where I feel like scarecrow
from The Wizard of Oz
cuz I’d give you an answer…
“if only I had a CLUE to give you”
I’m in the same boat as YOU JD (aka James D)
i say - talk about something controversial…
politics perhaps?
oh that’ll get ya goin’ - eh?
Posted by: James D Kirk - 03/16/2008
I hear ya, Deb. Personally, I have the blog post discussions in my head (along with all the other voices
) a lot! However, I’m in the starting stages of creating two new companies, one, an online media network, the other the holding company that owns the patent pending technologies I’ve developed over the past year and a half. As one can imagine, there’s tons to do. For me, the “coming back…” has to do with just figuring out how to make the time to continue posting on things that might actually matter enough for others to want to read.
Perhaps the real title of this post should have been something like, “What does it take for you to MAKE time to create blog posts in the midst of everything else you’re doing in your life!?!”
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