My eye is continuously drawn to your picture. It’s such a spectacular view!

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I don’t mean to disparage, by any means, those who post daily or multiple times a day. I don’t think it means there’s going to be junk if you do. This is especially true with multi-author blogs (like the aforementioned Men with Pens). When one’s uninspired, the other may well be.

I do believe that consistent posting, not necessarily daily posting, is requisite to building a large subscriber base, at least over the long haul. That can be as little as once a week, but you have to keep on folks’ radar to keep growing, I think.

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Sounds like you’re on the same track, Bob. As a regular reader, I have to say that I enjoy that approach.

By the way – that beach in the picture looks amazing. Is it St John or somewhere?

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Obviously, I just disagree with her on the daily posting and the “ABOUT” section, which does exist.

Coffeesis, being the wise sage that she is, also points out that if you and I have guilt over not blogging daily, then it’s imagined criticism, which is entirely in our heads. She could be on to something.

I’ve been wrestling with this for some time and feeling guilty over posting infrequency, but when it comes down to it, who really cares? I tend to also post when inspired and this is not daily by any means. If I push myself I get crap.

I was recently “reviewed” and the person took points off for my NOT posting daily, which I vehemently disagreed with. She also took marks off for my not having an “ABOUT” section, when it’s in fact been linked in my sidebar above the fold since the blog’s inception.. she just didn’t see it for some reason. So I really don’t put much (any) stock in that review.

The truth is, Bob, I didn’t notice that you hadn’t posted. We’re friends and we like each other, so I know you’ll take that has it’s intended.. I have so much that I read in my reader and so little time to do it, that it’s frankly a relief when the more prolific bloggers take a break. When I see that MwP has 4 new posts, I tend to think, “Oh GREAT! I’ve got some real catching up to do!” because I like James & Harry, and I like their stuff.. so I make myself read it all regardless of how much time I have.

SO, if you’re off the reader for a week, that’s fine. I’ll be here when you get back. I LOVE YOUR STUFF, daily or weekly. Yearly would be a stretch though.

That’s all.

I now do a post 2-3 times a week and also add to this links about what I have found on other blogs maybe a couple of times a month.

Like seemingly everyone else I’ve never unsubscribed due to break in posting only due to crap content.

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Notice, for example (if I recall correctly), that skelliewag.org never told anyone she wouldn’t be posting for a while when she knew she wouldn’t be. When she began receiving a bunch of e-mails about it, she wrote an entry titled, “not on hiatus.” Point is, I think it’s generally always a bad idea to tell people you wont be posting for a while, or to apologize for it. That’s just my opinion.

Secondly, I actually think it’s a mistake to post too often. It spreads your creativity too thin! If you use up all your ideas in one week, what will you post the following week? Filler?

Of course, it depends on your skills as a blogger. But speaking for myself, I take the philosophy of blogging less, and having the quality of my entries be as good as they can be. There is no greater turn off than entries that consist of filler.

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Some blogs are different, if they are super consistent about being there day after day like clock work…Pen Men come to mind…then if they weren’t there I would worry. I wouldn’t be mad, I would just wonder if they were OK.

Bloggers start to get a certian style and that’s what you start to expect.

But you’re dead on that blogs that post tons of crap every day just to have something posted, those get the unsubscribe with the quickness.

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It’s tough blogging for writers. There are so many good blogs out there to read, and if we read all of them we’ll never have time to write. So I tend to go through periods of reading a lot of blogs, then not reading very many at all. And I just have to hope that when I do that, folks understand that it’s because making a living comes before blogsurfing. Just the way I assume folks understand that sometimes life gets in the way of blogging. I don’t blog every day anymore at my writing blog, but I still have as many visitor. More, most days, than I did. Go figure.

If only I could exercise physically like I do on the keyboard… I’d stop worrying about coronary disease.

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