John who is affectionately known as Techie in some circles, of the Something for Nothing Blog, came up with a great idea the other day.
He coined a term for a method of blogging that you might already practice at times, or that you might wish you could do more often. He’s called it Quick Blogging, amd I must say, I’m jumping on the Quick Blogging Revolution band wagon.
I think to some degree I already practice Quick Blogging. It’s basically blogging something as soon as you think of it rather than holding on to it and thinking about it.
I’m going to call my post Stephen King on the Hour and Surnames in China my first official quick blogging post, but I’m sure I’ve practiced this form of blogging in the past. Perhaps even as often as once a week. Now I think I’m going to try to make a quick blogging entry at least once a day from now on. Why not.
Basically all you need to do for quick blogging is blog whatever you are thinking about when it comes to you.
Take my Stephen King and China Surnames post. I was watching a television show, enjoying it, and I thought “Gee this is a great show, and that fact about Chinese surnames is really interesting. I’ve got to blog about that.” So I just did it.
Do the two main topics of that post go together? No not really, but at least they were tied together in the guise of the TV show that I was watching. That’s not the point thought. The point is to blog about something as soon as it comes to you.
You know how you’re at work, the bank, shopping or just walking down the street and something either happens that makes you think “I’ve got to remember to blog about this” or you think of something to blog about? Well how often do you end up blogging about it when you finally get in front of your computer? Probably only half the time right?
Well stop that.
If something occurs to you to blog about get to a computer and blog it.
Whether it’s just a few lines or turns out to be a few paragraphs it doesn’t matter. Just get those thoughts out there. Make sure you have a spell checker on your computer or in your browser, and watch your sentence structure and grammar so that your post doesn’t end up looking really bad.
There’s some posts that I spend a lot of time thinking about and going over again and again as I write them up.
There’s other posts that I write in advance and save as drafts, and then go over before I publish them.
Then there’s some that I just write on the fly and post without much thought.
You know what I’ve found? While the posts that I’ve taken a lot of time over get a fairly good response, it’s the posts that I just write quickly, the ones that just pour out of me that tend to get the most response.
So what do you say? Are you ready to give quick blogging a try? It can’t hurt. You can always delete or edit the post if you change your mind about it.
Write it, read it, post it. Just do it!
Love it! I’ve found that getting anything done when you think about it drastically reduces the amount of mental energy you put into: planning, overplanning, fretting, procrastinating, and feeling guilty about procrastinating about whatever it is. And when you (finally, in my case) get around to actually doing it, the time spent on the task was waaaay out of proportion to the energy squandered on not doing it beforehand.
This is true of everything from taking out the trash to writing your will. Which reminds me….my trashcan is full!
That is nice. Well when I have an idea in my mind I usually write it down as a draft and then set a particular date on when to publish here. Playing the C and C Monday here!
I think quick blogging will catch on more and more as mobile blogging tools become more and more common, IE blogging from your phone.
A interesting read. I am only a few months into blogging and I take some time to write a post and add a image or two to enhance the look. but what you say is right. with quick blogging you put in more zest to the post and the effect is felt by the reader than the dry ones that you cut and chop and post. I must try this method. maybe quick blogging will be the future when mobile blogging catches up.