Twitter vs Blogging

Twitter vs Blogging

Jul 10

But this year I finally started doing the Twitter thing, and there is now a huge temptation to tweet short thoughts and not take the time and effort to blog on topics. I'm not much of a natural writer - I mostly do it out of necessity and desire to communicate with others, but beyond that it takes a lot of discipline for me to stop and journal or write my thoughts down on paper. So while I often might think, "gee, that'd be a great thing to blog about!", unfortunately my inclination is to not take the time to do so. And with Twitter, now it's so easy to share those quick casual thoughts as opposed to going on ad infinitem about a topic.

Part of my problem is I tend to over-edit and go over and over something before I write it. For that matter, I've got a bad perfectionist streak and my tendency is to do that with lots of things -- if it's not going to be done "right", it's not worth the time. So I might get most of the way through a blog post and then decide to trash it because I'm not happy with how it sounds or what it's saying.

Regardless though, I'm going to try and stick with this blogging thing too! I know writing is good for me, and I'd probably have a lot more clarity of mind if I did take the time to journal and write my thoughts out more, so an attmept is going to be made here, so lookout!

Just my $0.01 cent for the morning!