Brain Dump
Posted By Kristabella on August 17, 2010
I am really trying to force myself to post more. It is so easy to just keep my computer closed at night and just sit on my ass watching TV. I need to get my writing mojo back. I know blogging has taken a backseat to Twitter and Facebook, but I still enjoy writing and I hope there are some of you who still enjoy reading. Even better if you still enjoy reading and aren’t related to me.
I read a post yesterday somewhere online about how we all, as bloggers, connect more through Twitter. And whereas prior to Twitter, all our online connections were through email and blogging, now we have Twitter and that’s more of our online personalities and where people really can know us and interact with us.
I tend to agree with this. We live in a busy age. We all have so many things we need to be doing. And it is easier to find out how your friends are doing online through 140 characters, rather than through a whole blog post. And even if you don’t tweet, it is the same with Facebook, isn’t it? You lean more towards posting a status update than writing an email or picking up the phone.
I love the interaction on Twitter. It’s how I get through my boring, lazy days. And I think Twitter has introduced me to more bloggers and online friends than I ever would have met through just reading blogs. Let’s face it, on Twitter, people are more likely to respond than they are through blog comments, etc. (Even me! I used to reply to every comment and now I have more going on in my life that it isn’t as easy.) There are just so many blogs out there. I barely have time to read the ones in my Google Reader, let alone add new ones to read. That may make me sound like the biggest asshole, but it’s the truth. I follow over 600 people on Twitter. I do not have time to read 600 blogs a day, let alone a week. And that is OK. Because I feel that through Twitter and Facebook, I know what is up with you and that makes me happy. Because I’m the nosiest motherfucker you’ll ever meet.
But I miss writing. I miss coming up with a post idea and getting so excited about it that I had to write it down in my notebook that is always with me. I miss my creativity. I hate my complacency.
So I’m going to try to write more, be it here or somewhere else (like putting pen to paper on that novel that is floating around in my head.) Because it is what I love doing. And I don’t ever want it to become a chore. I don’t want to lose my passion for it. I don’t ever want to be at a point where I want to stop writing.
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I know exactly what you mean. I still read the blogs in my reader, but a lot of times I’ll find that the posts have reiterated what the blog author was tweeting. But there are still bloggers who aren’t on Twitter, so I interact with them more via their blogs. And I do still love to read the blogs in my reader. There are days when I don’t even look at Twitter.
I only follow a hundred something people on Twitter. How do you follow 600? How do you keep track?! I’ve only been on Twitter for a few months so I’m still just in awe of how it all works.
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I am a twitter hold out. I am tired of going out and seeing everyone sitting there with their phones typing away. There are people! right in front of you! talk to them! I understand the ease of use, the time saving aspect, and the plus of being able to connect to so many more people than you ever would in person. But I prefer being with people, hugging when we meet up, seeing their face when they laugh, or knowing by a look that they need some cheering up. I still send cards for people’s birthdays and thank yous and just because. I know I am missing out, as you say yourself you are leaning towards Twitter and I know Jen Lancaster starts almost even post with “if you didn’t see on Twitter”. But for now I am still going to spend my morning sipping coffee and reading my blog list and then reaching out to people who want to have lunch or a drink without their phones. So know there are still some of us non-related people still reading 🙂
I just started using Twitter, like last week. I’ve had a handle for a while but was more a FB girl. At Blogher, I discovered Tweetdeck and the gig is up. I’ll have to follow you!
I am a Google Reader addict so I must get my Google Reader injection and I try to post on my blog every night but more like 4 times a week.
Jen´s last blog post ..A Day to Myself
My problem is my brain only thinks in 140 characters now. I write a couple sentences and basically cover everything I wanted to say. LOL
Here’s to us getting back to blogging!
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pick up a phone?
a phone?
what’s that?
alimartell´s last blog post ..Hot Time- Summer in the…um…Suburbs
I don’t think I have the etiquette down yet and I’m feeling a little Twitter dorkish. When is it okay to reply to a Tweet? I want to be on the right side of funny/engaging but not be perceived as a stalker. HAAALLLP.
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I just recently discovered your blog (thank you Google Reader, I love you!) and really enjoy it so I’d love to see more of your writing. However, as a non-blogger myself, I would have to say that I never expect any blogger to blog for the sake of keeping me entertained. I think that it’s great that you share what you do when you can 🙂
I too have to admit to loving Twitter a bit more than blogs as of late, if only because I can easily catch up with people and/or converse with them multiple times throughout the day. I love that. I also love reading (and writing!) words. Yours, especially. (Reading them, not writing them. Ha.)
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Amen, friend. I don’t want to give up the writing either, which is why I force myself to bang out a couple of posts a week.
Here’s to more Kristabella!
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I actually think Twitter was the thing that killed my blog off in the end. Most of the people who read it followed me on Twitter, so didn’t NEED to read the blog any more, and even those who did still read it seemed to prefer to comment on Twitter than post a comment on the blog, which gave it a bit of a tumbleweed feel about it that made me post less and less. I understand how it happens, but it’s actually started to turn me off Twitter a bit – lately I’ve noticed that for many people it has become the one and only form of communication, and I really miss the days of having conversations on blogs, or via email or whatever. It’s possibly just because I’m far too wordy and long-winded to be satisfied with saying EVERYTHING in 140 characters or less!
I’m glad you’re still blogging, though 🙂
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I fell of the blogging bandwagon for a while…lack of inspiration I guess? But I like to write, it’s theraputic to me (even though no one comments on my blog and I’m starting to get a complex but that’s for another day).
On days where I feel the need to write but can’t really find anything interesting in my head, I check out Plinky.com. They have prompts that sometimes will jog something. Some of them are kind of queer – like describing your dream house – but some get me thinking. Or as I think of an answer a new idea pops into my head and I’m off writing something completely different.
Just a thought! I love your blog though so don’t go away! 🙂
I, um, deleted my Twitter account early last week and removed myself from my (no longer my) blog. So your blog is now the only way I can keep up with you. So please post! LOL
I still read! and follow you on twitter… I suppose that doesn’t exactly help much.
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Someone at blogher, and I do not remember who, said comments are dead. Comments are now happening on twitter and Facebook. And that makes me said. I miss comments.
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Yes, yes, and yes! I agree with all of this.
A while ago I just wasn’t in the blogging mood, really not in the twitter mood either. But then (this is weird) everyone went to blogher and wammo I was inspired again and I didn’t even go. I don’t know what it was but I remembered how inspired I was when I went. Weird but true.
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As someone who doesn’t facebook or twitter, I am a blog girl through and through.
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