PS...To Why I Blog...and I Want You

Over the weekend I re-read my last post "Why I Blog". (if you haven't read it yet, you should do that before reading this.....see I linked it for you and everything!) I told you in there that I often think about particular people while I blog. Well as I read that post, I heard a couple people complaining. I heard your reasons for NOT blogging. (OK so I could be crazy hearing voices.....so what?)

The obvious objection is "I just don't have the time for it."

I know. It takes time. It takes a bit of effort. You have kids. You have a busy schedule. I know. Me too.

To blog well, it's like everything else...you need to force yourself to do it. You have to be disciplined. Maybe even have (gasp) a schedule. Seriously it makes sense...everything else in your life is on a calendar why can't 1/2 hour of typing be on your calendar too? I know that the times that I'm most productive are the times that I've had an intentional, planned out schedule for making it happen.

"I don't have anything important to say." If that's true, then I want you to go delete your Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, etc. accounts. Right? Honestly...you do have something to say. It's just that once again it will take some effort instead of a 140 character blurb. I know you. You have cool stuff going on in your life and I feel like I'm missing out on it.

"No one will read it or care". I will. Seriously I will. I used to have a blog roll on the right side of my blog of all the blogs that I was following...the problem became that most of them hadn't been updated in a long time. I want to read what you're writing. I want to read your thoughts. Here's the other thing....at the get-go, no one will read it...because you haven't blogged in a year or a couple months.....you're going to have to get those readers back.....make people aware that you've started up again. It won't just naturally happen. People stopped reading because you stopped blogging.

Which segways nicely into my next point....I Want You to Blog. I don't mean casually hack at it. I mean give it a full on try. Let's say....one month of consistent writing. Not daily....but maybe 2 or 3 posts a week. Just make it happen.

Remember when you were blogging and all your friends would comment at your posts because you inspired them, or made them laugh, or were in awe of how cute your kids are and how much they've grown? Remember that feeling of accomplishment? Remember how your heart would leap when you got an e-mail saying someone commented on your post? Yeah...that's still going on, you just aren't part of it.

I want you to come back to the fold. Or to start over. Or to start for the first time. Post a comment. Link me your blog in the comment so I make sure I'm reading.