My writing-related resolutions for this shiny new year are:
To be more disciplined in how I spend my time. My writing time will be spent writing (or at least researching), and not on e-mailing or blog-reading. My e-mailing and blogging will get their own separate chunk of time. And I’ll do a better job of keeping all those things from getting in the way of time devoted to family, home, exercise, etc.
To be more focused — two active projects requiring my brainpower at any one time are plenty. And I’ll be keeping the non-nonfiction projects to a minimum.
To keep in their proper perspective the 2006 versions of Rainbow Party, Clement Hurd’s disappearing cigarette, The Apprentice, Cashmere If You Can, etc.
For all of you, I hope that your best work so far and your happiest days yet lie just ahead.
Bloglines has been wonderful as a time management for blog reading. My goals include more discpline for writing, both professional (reviews & blog) and fiction. As for time blogreading, are you using bloglines? It saves me a lot of time, because I just go there and see right away who updates and what the update is. Only drawback is, comments aren’t included in the updates & the site loses the hits.
Bloglines has been wonderful as a time management for blog reading. My goals include more discpline for writing, both professional (reviews & blog) and fiction. As for time blogreading, are you using bloglines? It saves me a lot of time, because I just go there and see right away who updates and what the update is. Only drawback is, comments aren’t included in the updates & the site loses the hits.
Bloglines has been wonderful as a time management for blog reading. My goals include more discpline for writing, both professional (reviews & blog) and fiction. As for time blogreading, are you using bloglines? It saves me a lot of time, because I just go there and see right away who updates and what the update is. Only drawback is, comments aren’t included in the updates & the site loses the hits.
Bloglines has been a big help, and then a hindrance, and then, again (with a little discipline on my part), a help.
I’ve divided up my regular blogs into daily reads and weekly reads (if you’re reading this, you are, of course, among my daily reads…).
I’ve also subscribed to feeds of Google blog search results for phrases or site links of interest to me — that’s one big way that I find new blogs to watch.
I’ve thought about the loss of traffic to Bartography when someone reads my posts via Bloglines, but I just mentally add the number of subscribers, give or take, to my daily traffic.
Bloglines has been a big help, and then a hindrance, and then, again (with a little discipline on my part), a help.
I’ve divided up my regular blogs into daily reads and weekly reads (if you’re reading this, you are, of course, among my daily reads…).
I’ve also subscribed to feeds of Google blog search results for phrases or site links of interest to me — that’s one big way that I find new blogs to watch.
I’ve thought about the loss of traffic to Bartography when someone reads my posts via Bloglines, but I just mentally add the number of subscribers, give or take, to my daily traffic.
Bloglines has been a big help, and then a hindrance, and then, again (with a little discipline on my part), a help.
I’ve divided up my regular blogs into daily reads and weekly reads (if you’re reading this, you are, of course, among my daily reads…).
I’ve also subscribed to feeds of Google blog search results for phrases or site links of interest to me — that’s one big way that I find new blogs to watch.
I’ve thought about the loss of traffic to Bartography when someone reads my posts via Bloglines, but I just mentally add the number of subscribers, give or take, to my daily traffic.