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?
Ahhh – it seems ‘Draftitus’ is a symptom of a much larger condition – ‘Imposter Syndrome’ – there’s a problogger post all about it here.
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…)
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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…