1. You’ve been staring at your desktop client and/or dashboard for a very long time, asking the same question over and over: “What to blog? What to blog? What to blog?…”
2. You have a bunch of half-started blog posts or mile-long blog ideas. But, not really blogging them completely.
3. You’ve been posting re-hash entries from your other web activities (Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, etc) - for weeks on end.
4. You just link, link, link and/or quote, quote, quote. Nothing new to say. Nothing fresh to add.
5. You just want to blog to meet quotas/make money/give in to people’s demands… Blogging has just become a chore, a job, another thing on a “to do” list.
6. You’ve lost your will/energy/time to read other blogs. You don’t comment. You don’t join any conversations or community efforts.
7. You’ve become overly obsessed with stats - how many comments, page views, back links, ranking, subscribers, Diggs/Stumbles… And, anything less than what you hope for/expect just get you down.
8. You ignore comments on your own blog.
9. You’ve forgotten why you wanted to blog in the first place.
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Kari 01.19.08 at 7:48 pm
I’ve been there before. I’ve decided at times like this it is best if I just don’t post
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Gaines 01.19.08 at 10:23 pm
As always you are right Shai
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Deb Ng 01.20.08 at 1:35 am
I hope i never get to the stage when blogging becomes a chore or something I dread.
Great post.
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Heather 01.20.08 at 10:04 am
Hi Shai,
Thanks for this one it made me laugh. I’ve definitely been at number one a few times.
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Shai Coggins 01.21.08 at 5:08 pm
Kari: That can work too!
Thanks for the feedback!
Gaines: Hmmm… have you been talking to my husband? Hehe.
Deb: Thank you. It can be a scary thing for sure!
Heather: Yeah… I think we’ve all been there.
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toni 02.06.08 at 1:45 am
I so know what you mean. I go into a slump as well. All we gotta do is step back and detach a bit, and things fall back into place.
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Shai Coggins reply on February 6th, 2008:
Yeah… eventually, we’ll find our groove back somehow.
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