Fandango’s Provocative Question #207
This week’s question is interesting. As a writer, reader, commenter, photographer and now there is also the podcast which eats up a chunk of time — it seems to me that pretty much any time I’m not doing something else, everything ultimately winds up on the blog in one form or another. Even things I cook wind up published.
How many hours a day would you estimate you spent on your blog, including writing, reading, and commenting? If you didn’t blog, what would you do with the time you currently spend on your blog?
I’m not sure I can figure it out. I always took pictures, but now I process with the intent of publishing them on the blog. Does that make photography an aspect of blogging? I process differently than I used to. These days, it’s more for relevance to what I’m writing or for various challenges. I’m more concerned with the physical size of pictures and especially their color, saturation and brightness. I tend to like darker pictures, but they don’t display as well as bright ones. I’ve had to rethink processing. I spend a lot of time every day taking, reviewing and processing pictures. Is that part of blogging time?
A lot of conversations become blogs, too. At some point, the little lightbulb goes off and “ping” — a blog. Having reduced the number of posts I publish, it doesn’t happen quite as often as it used to. Some great ideas never get written. Oddly, despite posting less, and trying to keep the number of posts to a reasonable level, it seems I spend the same amount of time as I used to, but I put more time into each post.
I don’t think I can calculate the number of hours. Blogging has so completely integrated into my life. It’s hard to remember what I did before. I think it had something to do with getting paid, that ultimate four-letter word: WORK.
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I’m not sure about WordPress anymore. It certainly isn’t user friendly.
Compared to other sites, they have lost much ground with me. But, I still pop in (when it lets me) can try to catch up. I used to spend 2 hrs each morning on here, with my coffee. Then again at the end of the day after work. I’ll figure it out eventually. Ideas continue to pop into mind and I write them on scraps of paper or memos or notes in my phone. The format difficulties on here had me questioning why I’m blogging at all. In time I may have an answer.
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I think you are right Marilyn. Blogging is so much a part of your everyday life it would be impossible to draw a line and say “This is blogging and this isn’t.”
As long as you enjoy it that’s all that matters.
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Honestly I would enjoy it a LOT more if WordPress would stop messing with the format. They will eventually drive me away. They keep trying. I keep hanging on.
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I think I worked out what my current problem is. The “Happiness Engineer” suggested it was a browser problem and made some suggestions which I will try. However, before I got that email I wondered if it was because the workaround link I have been using for a couple of years now is broken. It was one I got from Dennis after a previous WP “upgrade”. I tried opening a post through the dashboard and had no problems. I’ll have to delve a bit more into it. I really prefer the workaround but they all break in the end don’t they?
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They have made that dashboard impossible to get anymore. I lost it too. And they change everything so frequently, that whatever you think you’ve got, they break. I still haven’t recovered from the mess they have made of the photo library.
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Well I may have spoken too soon. This afternoon I did a post with the “normal” block editor and it still froze my page. So I’ll try it next with a different browser.
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I use Chrome and so far, it works. So far. Who knows for how long. If someone will push me out of blogging, I’m pretty sure it will be WordPress.
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I normally use Chrome but I’m still having a problem. I don’t really like Edge as much but I will try that and Firefox. Otherwise I’ll just have to find other workarounds.
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Hi Marilyn, I blog about 2 hours a day. That is the time I have available and sometimes it is on the run and from my cell phone or ipad. I like blogging so I fit it in as and where.
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I wind up doing a lot of it at night. Garry watches movies or TV shows. I write blogs or process photos and watch with one eye on the TV. I used to have time to “write ahead,” but I don’t have enough time to do that anymore. I’m not sure why I’m so much busier than I used to be, but I am. If I blogged less, I’d SLEEP more!
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I sense there will be a baseball piece soon. Today is Opening Day – Christmas for die hard baseball fans! But we have no LIVE TV coverage because the sports stations have outpriced many of us. BOO!
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Life does seem to get busier and busier, doesn’t it?
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Wow, I wrote my post today before I even saw yours. Must be something in the way the stars and planets are aligning. Similar posts, yet so much different – you still enjoy blogging and photography while I’m wondering if I should continue either at all. Hugs to you and Garry.
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If I had something worthwhile to do other than blogging, I’d think about it — but I don’t. Now, of course, WordPress might drive me crazy enough to make leaving the only possible choice, but so far, I’ve managed to figure out how to use their ever increasingly weird format. Every time I think I’ve figured it out, they change something. Not something small. Something MAJOR that I counted on. They might finally drive me to the brink, but so far, so good. I am doing a lot less, however. I decided that if I was pumping out five or six posts a day, I WAS spam.
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Yes, I write some of my ideas or brain flashes on our kitchen whiteboard. That way, I don’t forget. Problem is that those ideas don’t always have blog “legs”. But it’s good to see them in my chicken scrawl, reminding me of the possible blog piece.
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