Apr
Questions for the Floor
Hello my little electronic friends. I was preparing to write my post for today, caught a glance at the clock, and sighed a deep one. In each day’s to-do list, posting to the old QRW invariably ends up a late afternoon/early evening prospect. It’s the way it works, when you’ve got deadlines to meet and self-shilling to do.
When I think about my own blog and RSS reading activity, that makes sense. I always hold off on reading my feeds and visiting my favorite blogs until evening, when the day’s work is done and I can concentrate on the goodness out there in them interwebs. It also provides me one less distraction during the day, when I can manufacture excuses not to work out of about anything.
But then it occurred to me - perhaps my readers have different reading habits. So I throw it out to you. When do you read your blogs and feeds? Do you prefer new posts first thing in the mornings, or at the end of a hard day?
Let me know your thoughts. And as always, thanks for reading!
I tend to read feeds in the morning, although I often check back during the day if I get bored.
April 10th, 2008 at 4:39 pmI prefere them at the end and at the begining, i do two news scannings… every morning before heading to college and at nigth before going to sleep…
A good suggestion would be MAKE TWO POSTS! hahaha, at least i would love that…
BTW, i would really apreciate if you can write even more about the processes you used in your books, and really practical examples on how youdid it… thanks! love th blog…
April 10th, 2008 at 5:10 pmI do both. On a good day, I hit a few favorites in the mornings. Fresh ideas and inspiration for contemplation throughout the day. I enjoy a wind-down time in the evenings as well. Lately, our lives are dominanted by our son’s afternoon and evening baseball games. Evenings have been spent cheering instead of reading and writing.
April 10th, 2008 at 5:28 pmI actually spend most of my day job skimming the reader. By the time I’m done for the day I’m ready to do something creative, not scroll and scroll, you know?
April 10th, 2008 at 6:00 pmI try to write first thing in the morning since I’ve learned I can spend all day reading. I’ll normally check feeds around lunch and then in the evening before I log off.
I’ve found that getting a post out by 4pm is good because that gets it out in time for 80% of the audience to grab for the evening.
April 10th, 2008 at 7:07 pmWow, look at all the response! You guys are great.
@John - you obviously have more restraint than I do. If I start off the day looking at my feeds, I am way to tempted to leave them out all day. And then I’m tempted to use them as an excuse not to work. Stupid procrastinating self
@Alberto - way to bookend the day. And man, I wish I could write a bunch of posts each day. Thanks for the suggestions - I’ll definitely think about them and think about ways to get more specific (and rebellious) about writing of books.
@DebMC - sounds like a nice routine. And holy flashback. I spent a large portion of my youth and adolescence schlepping to baseball game after game for my twin brothers, the little jocks they were. Cheering takes a lot of you. I used copious amounts of ballpark laffy taffy to get through.
@Justin - you mean - there’s more to life than the interwebs?? Blasphemy!!
@Charlie - good points. I’m definitely thinking I need to rework my writing schedule a bit. Skellie over at SkellieWag recommends writing your weeks or months posts all at once, but I just can’t do that. What I can do is write a post a day ahead, and post it in the morn. Thanks for weighing in!
April 10th, 2008 at 10:02 pmI agree with Skellie - my best posts are generally preposted. But here lately I can’t get enough time to do it reasonably well, so I end up with the 3:30 rush. Few things are as nice (at least when it comes to blogging) than waking up with your quality post already on the blogosphere.
April 11th, 2008 at 2:33 pmI read some during the day, but mostly in the evenings. I use Google Reader and I’ll star posts that look interesting for later reading.
I *should* read them only after the work is done…but I need mental health breaks.
April 21st, 2008 at 1:23 pm