So, some seven years ago I made a decision that made a lot of sense at the time. I had a website and a blog, but I wasn’t doing much of anything with them. After attending some seminars at DFWCon, I decided I needed to be regular and habitual about blogging, and so I pledged to blog every Monday and Thursday, rain or shine.
And for seven years, I’ve held to that, even when I’ve not really had a lot to say. Partly for the pure discipline of it, and partly to maintain a steady presence on here. I wanted anyone who came to my website to be able to say, “Hey, this guy is reliable, this guy sticks with what he sets out to do.” I mean, the web is littered with tumbleweed-filled fledgling-author sites where they have a flurry of “I’m totally gonna do this blog thing” posts, and then they drizzle out to nothing.
But here’s the thing: I don’t have to prove, to myself or the world at large, that I can reliably work with discipline. I’ve got the bonafides: between seven books in three-and-a-half years, two more on the way, and seven years of regular twice-a-week blogs, I’ve shown that in spades. Plus regularly posting here is time and energy that takes away from actual writing. Between what I have on deck and other projects I have planned, I’ve got enough working that I don’t ALSO need to habitually blog for its own sake. And posting-for-its-own sake was starting to feel like the signal-to-noise ratio was getting low.
So, for the foreseeable future, I won’t be posting regularly on Mondays any more. I will still do Thursdays at SFFSeven and mirror those posts here. And I’ll post when I have something significant to announce, or some topic I really want to talk about, but not to any set schedule.
If you are looking for things-I-want-to-talk-about-not-to-any-set-schedule, of course, follow my Twitter. It’s fun and I have pictures of food.
Now back to the word mines. See you all down there.
Good on you! Completely support your decision and look forward to the books that will result.