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	<title>Punctuating The Silence &#187; blogging</title>
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		<title>The Problem with My Blogging Philosophy</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even with the name change to reflect the nature of the blog (sporadic posting), there&#8217;s definitely something wrong with the way I do things here.  Read any article on blogging, and they&#8217;ll tell you about posting often to build an audience and a brand, and I&#8217;m just plain ignoring that.  This isn&#8217;t really a blog [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Even with the name change to reflect the nature of the blog (sporadic posting), there&#8217;s definitely something wrong with the way I do things here.  Read any article on blogging, and they&#8217;ll tell you about posting often to build an audience and a brand, and I&#8217;m just plain ignoring that.  This isn&#8217;t really a blog about any one thing (which is a problem any of the previously-mentioned articles will tell you), and that&#8217;s coupled with two problems:</p>
<p>The first is that I am, by nature, a fairly private person.  I know that probably seems weird to say, given my online presence, but if you examine everything about me that&#8217;s out there, it doesn&#8217;t really go that deep.  Regardless, there is a definite amount of resistance I need to overcome just to write something here (or anywhere public, for that matter).</p>
<p>The second problem, more directly related to blogging, is overcoming the mostly-subconscious, self-imposed expectation of having to posting something really great (which I imagine people whose blogs have an audience have), which grows worse the longer the silence gets.  There have been things I could have written about and didn&#8217;t because I didn&#8217;t think I had the time to do it justice, or just forgot about it.  Then there&#8217;s looking at the date of the last entry and thinking &#8220;wow, it&#8217;s really been a while &#8211; I need something to write about&#8221;, and then rejecting most of the ideas as &#8220;not good enough&#8221;.</p>
<p>I have the head-knowledge bit of overcoming this (just write something!), but is there a practical thing I can do to overcome this other than just &#8220;getting over it&#8221;?</p>
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