I decided to stop writing blog entries after 90 days of, more or less, daily activity. I was noticing a trend that I wanted to change but thought that a 30 vacation would help as well.
The main trend that I had noticed was that the entries were starting to be done before going to bed and they were done quickly so that I could go to sleep. I was not preparing the entries and at times I was not even sure what I was going to write about when I started. I felt that I was short changing the experience.
During the 30 day reprieve I noticed a few things. First, I felt like I should be writing to the blog. What I mean is, that events would occur and I would think, I should put that in the blog or maybe that would make a good topic for a blog entry.
Second, I found myself wanting to refer back to a blog entry for some specifics on what I was doing and realized that there were no entries to look at. Third, I have found that doing daily blog entries keeps me more organized than when I don't write to the blog.
So what does this all mean?
I am going to start writing to the blog on a daily basis again. I am going to refrain from writing the blog entry at night before going to bed and I plan on writing smaller more frequent entries as well.
I also hope to improve my writing skills and decrease the time it takes to go from idea to finished product. I will do another evaluation in 90 days.