I’ve been into blog­ging for a while, although at var­i­ous times I’ve stopped or haven’t been real con­sis­tent with it. I really do enjoy it though, and I’ve always liked blogs that had lots of inter­ac­tion with com­ments and insight and wis­dom being shared.

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!

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