Draftitus - a common blogging affliction?
June 18th, 2008 at 1:00 pm (blogging)
As you can see from the two posts I have actually published - I am suffering from what I have termed ‘draftitus’ - the symptoms are:
- At least 4 draft posts awaiting concluding and publishing
- A gap of at least 1 month since the last post
- Not having narrow enough subject matter and being too tangenital
- A tendency to read other peoples blogs and comment on them rather than finish your own posts
Anyone else afflicted? Or is it just me?
nommo says:
June 24, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Ahhh - it seems ‘Draftitus’ is a symptom of a much larger condition - ‘Imposter Syndrome’ - there’s a problogger post all about it here.
eazibee says:
September 14, 2008 at 5:54 am
Hi - There’s one way to overcome this, which I’ve found extraordinarily effective, if totally exhausting: commit to your readership that you’ll blog every day. Indeed, stake your whole reputation as a blogger on it… That’ll stop you procrastinating!
(Actually, my advice would be to commit to ‘weekly’ frequency - work/life balance, and all that…)
E
nommo says:
September 20, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Hiya eazibee!
Wow - Reasonstobehopeful - almost a years worth of daily posts - that is an impressive commitment to blogging! I think that is a good strategy as long as you aren’t afraid of commitment
After today’s little trouble with something as mundane as troubleshooting wireless connection problems following XP SP3 (the tricky bit was finding other people out there who have had a similar problem!) - I have realised that I spend a lot of time trying to solve annoying problems that other people might actually benefit from, so I am going to start detailing some problems and solutions, and hopefully save some people a bit of tedium in their lives by condensing my own experience into a blog post
At least weekly…