Returning to Blogging?

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Returning to Blogging?

by GoingSomewhere @ Friday, 28. Sep, 2007 – 12:08:05

When I first started blogging I couldn't imagine that there would be a time when I just didn't feel like it any more - yet that time has come. I've still got lots to say, but don't feel inclined to say it, and I don't know why. It's a couple of months since I wrote any proper posts and I find I can live without my fix. Actually I wonder how I had time to write at all. I used to spend hours on here, and yet I have found those hours have been absorbed into my day quite effortlessly and probably more productively. I hardly feel as though I've got the time for this any more.
This hasn't been the blog I though it would be - I imagined something more humourous and philosophical, and really it has fallen very far short of that. Maybe we tend to be more critical of our own work - it's very difficult to know how good one actually is. I can't even judge properly if this is worth reading, although I imagine that to some people it is or they wouldn't read and then be kind enough to comment.

I don't want to lose touch with friends I've made here. So, what am I going to do? I don't know. I have to find a way to reawaken my enthusiasm for blogging, but at the same time not to spend hours here. It becomes very addictive and I don't want to be addicted any more.
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- jenray ^Pro
- http://www.jenniferhunter.co.uk
- Friday, 28. Sep, 2007 @ 12:18:58
It clearly filled a need when there was one, and that need isn't there anymore...I haven't known you long, but enjoyed your company while you were with us...I hope your life will be full and happy without blogland...big hugs to you..
- - GoingSomewhere
  - Friday, 05. Oct, 2007 @ 08:49:58
  I think it became something other than I originally intended it should be, and this is where the problem arose because as well as being addictive, it was also stressful.
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- Friday, 28. Sep, 2007 @ 14:12:23
Oooh! Just saw this!

Hello! Hello! Hello!

What jenray said above - had a need to talk and blog, but that need is disappearing?

I must say I feel better when I'm not on here so long. Think that I'm able to drag myself away from blog much easier now cos I'm getting together a life - my own life. So blogging is not the way I need any more to have a life - cos it is a vicarious - (Don't laugh! I've just written that word, knowing what I mean but unable to spell it!) experince.

Maybe you close this blog of yours and start something else up - maybe another blog in Bloguk or on another site altogether. Cos you're in a different head-space. Or maybe you just say you'll read and comment every now and again.

Now - whatever you do - DON'T Read this and immediatly log-of!

Toodle-Pip (I'm glad you are okay and busy busy busy).
- - GoingSomewhere
  - Friday, 05. Oct, 2007 @ 09:01:46
  Hello, hello, hello,
  
  I see you are disappeared again, but maybe you'll read this. I'm glad that you find that blogging is no longer a need for you, but I hope it will continue to be a pleasure - when you return (something I shall look forward to).
  
  As for myself, I will continue with this blog (I hope), but I'm not going to come here so often, because it really does take up too much of the time I should be devoting to other aspects of my life. I'm always happy to spend time reading your blog, though, and hope to be doing so again soon.
  
  'Till then - toodle-pip (that's not something one hears very often these days).
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- deleted user (Visitor)
- Friday, 28. Sep, 2007 @ 15:37:12
I think a few folk on here will understand your desire not to be addicted. Logging in and out occasionally to fill a quiet moment seems harmless but once blogging becomes a mainstay of life it is potentially worrying. Personally, I've always found you well worth reading. Oh, and your interested comments on my posts, very inspiring. Heck, you even got my thoughts about my dad's death back on a more even keel. No small achievement! So, all in all, might I suggest you continue lurking a little longer before finally deciding your future? If only because we, meaning I, would miss you. James.
- - GoingSomewhere
  - Friday, 05. Oct, 2007 @ 09:14:54
  Hello James,
  
  It's made me really happy to read what you've written here, particularly the part about your dad.
  
  I will take up your suggestion and continue to lurk here. Thank you for such a lovely comment.
  
  GSomewhere.
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- Captain_Autumn
- Friday, 28. Sep, 2007 @ 16:01:14
I would miss you, have missed you in fact, because you have always read everything I've written and responded on many an occasion (like today) with an apposite and touching word. And I like your placid, reasoned take on life. There are so many blogs full of people declaiming their point of view so ardently that it is thoroughly refreshing to read one by someone whose writings betray that she doesn't have all the answers. Such a mature response to the trials of life, that.

Maybe you should just pop in when the mood takes you. Never mind if you don't keep up with everyone.
- - GoingSomewhere
  - Friday, 05. Oct, 2007 @ 09:22:32
  Thank you, Captain. You certainly know how to make me feel good about myself, mainly because it's obvious to me that you wouldn't say what you don't mean. A good suggestion to just pop in when the mood takes me, and one that I am happy to follow. You know that I'll be keeping up with you.
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- MarikaSunSeeker
- Friday, 28. Sep, 2007 @ 16:51:14
When I read your stuff, I sometimes think we are similar in many ways. It is good to have a network of blog friends and a blog to write in, as and when we choose. So, just go with the flow, don't worry, be happy!
- - GoingSomewhere
  - Friday, 05. Oct, 2007 @ 09:24:33
  Thank you MSS. It's good to see that so many of my friends here understand what this is all about.
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- ajnspencer ^Pro
- http://www.devonwallart.co.uk
- Friday, 28. Sep, 2007 @ 20:30:56
We miss having you around but would never suggest you came back to suit us.

What we care about is knowing you're ok, so maybe when you have the time pop in and chat, when you don't... we'll understand.
- - GoingSomewhere
  - Friday, 05. Oct, 2007 @ 09:26:11
  Thank you, aj. It's lovely to know I have such friends, who understand my need to not be here all the time, and who are happy to see me when I am.
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- deleted user (Visitor)
- http://menomamauk.blog.co.uk
- Saturday, 29. Sep, 2007 @ 01:58:03
I completely understand the need to stand back and blog a little then walk away and enjoy our real life. Balance is key.

Hope you are well.

Cheers
- - GoingSomewhere
  - Friday, 05. Oct, 2007 @ 09:27:47
  You're right, balance is indeed the key.
  
  Hope you enjoy the upcomming blogmeet.
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- avrilo
- Saturday, 29. Sep, 2007 @ 23:54:48
It is totally up to you how much time you spend on blogging. Is it that you find it hard to just pop in, write and post and leave? Maybe you spend too much time trying to answer others and read their posts, which always takes up a lot of time.
I pick only about 3 friends posts to read usually and give myself a longer session and read more friends from time to time.

I say just post when you want, comment when you want, read when you want. No one will think any worse of you.
Cpt. Autumn's comment was a good one - with friend's like him, qu ality is better than quantity!

Catch you later.....

ax
- - GoingSomewhere
  - Friday, 05. Oct, 2007 @ 10:29:32
  You've hit the nail on the head - I do indeed find it hard to write a post and leave. Most of the time is spent in reading and commenting on the posts of my friends. I think your way of doing it - just picking three to read is a good idea.
  
  You are right about Captain A. He's one of my favourites, and I know he's not one of those people who will say something just to make a person feel better. I think you are like that too - although you do comment more often, I don't think you would say anything you don't believe to be true.
  
  xx
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- rowtheboat
- http://rowtheboat.blog.co.uk/
- Sunday, 30. Sep, 2007 @ 22:22:55
It does indeed become addictive.

I think, like anything, it's a question of balance. Realising that when something isn't fulfilling you, or working well for you, it's time to step back a bit. Find your enjoyment level again, and stick to that.
- - GoingSomewhere
  - Friday, 05. Oct, 2007 @ 10:33:36
  Good advice, Row, thank you. It is a question of balance, as you say. Now how do I stop myself from going straight to your blog and reading it, and then the blogs of half your friends? Actually, I am managing to tear myself away of late, and although I still read a lot, I don't comment so much. In fact, I am finding that balance, and blogging is all the more enjoyable for that - doesn't feel so addcitive now.
  - - rowtheboat
    - http://rowtheboat.blog.co.uk/
    - Friday, 05. Oct, 2007 @ 16:25:49
    Think I may come back to you for some tips on how to do that soon...
    - - GoingSomewhere
      - Friday, 05. Oct, 2007 @ 22:15:52
      Didn't manage to keep away from your blog, did I? Actually, it's quite some time since I looked at it, so I was glad I did. Looks like your life is going in a new and interesting direction. Good luck.
      - rowtheboat
        
        http://rowtheboat.blog.co.uk/
        
        Sunday, 07. Oct, 2007 @ 19:06:36
        
        Thank you
        
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- avrilo
- Friday, 05. Oct, 2007 @ 18:55:20
yes I tell the truth, but try and be sensitive with it, not to hurt feelings.
Glad to hear from you, hope you're ok and finding a way to get back to blogging without it being a burden.
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- KandAmoist
- Wednesday, 05. Dec, 2007 @ 12:34:18
It helps one understand the saying that "everyone has a book in them": we've all got a story to tell, or a need to express our feelings, but once we've done that, what next? Writers go on and produce more books, and they, and the rest of us just get on with our lives as best we can.
- - GoingSomewhere
  - Wednesday, 05. Dec, 2007 @ 12:54:06
  Thank you, K, you make a good point. Perhaps I have told as much of my story as I want to tell since I'm finding it difficult to produce any more of it, although I have found myself spending more time here again recently, and certainly enough to read what you have been getting up to of late. We do indeed "just get on with our lives as best we can." I'm glad yours has been so pleasurable of late.
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- KandAmoist
- Wednesday, 05. Dec, 2007 @ 14:13:29
It tends to be the pleasurable bits that I write (brag?) about. By and large I don't report the arguments and other elelments of an unhappy partnership, not the tensions and pressures of a demanding job (nor the guilt I feel when blogging instead of working)
- - GoingSomewhere
  - Thursday, 06. Dec, 2007 @ 16:43:34
  Of course, I've fallen into the trap of thinking that because you don't write about it, it doesn't happen. Bit like an iceberg aren't you? We see the bright one tenth. And I had hoped that maybe things were better at home.
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