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Sounds all too familiar. This time around I wrote one and a half post during the wknd as I knew yesterday's magazine deadline would keep me from blogging at least until today, let's see if that breaks the spell of procastrination-perfectionism that comes over me when I've been away from blogging too long - if only I finally can find a spare minute to blog soon.
It's funny - one of the things that I always teach journalists is that you should blog a thought or link as soon as you can after you have it.
And I'm terrible at doing so. Do as I say, not as I do. :)
Looks like it did work!
I know exactly what you mean - currently fighting my way out of yet another lull in blogging. Best cure is prevention, one suspects: not stopping in the first place :-)
I think Andrew Sullivan put it well in his essay in the Atlantic (http://snurl.com/6xhab ): "...as Matt Drudge told me when I sought advice from the master in 2001, the key to understanding a blog is to realize that it’s a broadcast, not a publication. If it stops moving, it dies. If it stops paddling, it sinks."
Good quote.
And it think people from traditional media are in constant danger of slipping back into the publication mindset.
I so know what you mean Adam.
I am about to go off line for the first time in six months while I go on holiday for a week. It is both scary and exciting - scary, because I cannot imagine not checking in on my blog or Twitter, but exciting because it will be so nice to escape the dicatorship of digital. I bet return resfreshed.
Wish me luck!
I had a 100% offline break last year - staying somewhere you couldn't even get a mobile phone signal.
It did me the world of good. Enjoy your break. :)