I write too slow
I write way too slowly. It has taken me pretty much the whole day to write one post. Of course, looking back maybe it was a bad decision on my part to write a 4 part series related to Earth Day. There’s so much to cover and as much of it is technical it takes me quite a while to do the background reading and then the writing.
I feel good so far about these posts though. I think I summarized some of the issues involved pretty well. I have no idea if anyone will actually read what I wrote though - so maybe I just wasted a whole lot of time. I did at least learn something from it all though.
Next week I will have to try pick things to write about that won’t take so long. And I will have to start getting something written ahead of time so I can have it posted in the morning. Instead of like now where I take all day to write and can’t post anything until late afternoon or evening - 8:30 pm, when I finished today.
This is kind of where I was a few months ago too. It took me so long to write, that I didn’t have time to do anything to promote the blog at all. So I ended up more or less just writing to myself. I don’t want this to continue so I will have - like I said above - to write shorter, less time consuming posts.
on April 25th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
You write well. Don’t be a perfectionist. The more volume you generate, the more confortable you will become with your voice. And the faster you will write. Write like you speak. Then edit. Let loose of the monkey mind. That is, don’t try to edit and write at the same time. Try stream of conscious writing. Try timed writing exercises.
Most importanlty, do as I say not as I do.
This is the most I’ve written all week.
on April 25th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
BTW, “This Pale Blue Dot” is a great name for a blog.
on April 28th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Troy - thanks! - about the name and writing too! I do tend to be a perfectionist, and that slows me down a lot.