Facibus On Blogging

The second day of Oz-IA is just about to start and I’m feeling a bit weary after a hectic day yesterday. I’m asking myself if it is worth blogging when tired.

We’ve seen posts over the last couple of months on how to blog when you’re ill (and when not to blog). In this busy busy world, should you blog when you are tired?

For some people, the answer has to be ‘yes’ - at least if they want to blog at all - because lifestyle/work issues mean that they are always tired. This is not ideal (either as a way of life or as a way of blogging).

So you need to think it through: do you really need to blog when you’re tired?

Let’s say you’ve thought about it and you’ve decided that you need to blog anyway. Here are some tips for blogging when you are tired:

• it seems easier to rant when you’re tired. This is OK when you run a rant blog and your readers are expecting it - but not OK if it is out of character. The lesson here is think twice before getting snarky (easier said than done)
• mistakes are easier to make - going without sleep can be the equivalent of drinking over the legal limit and contributes to a lot of road injury statistics. If you’re tired, re-read the post top-to-bottom and make sure you’ve used spell-check.
• it’s harder to think when you’re tired - posting ideas can be too hard to come up with. My solution to this is to have a store of posting ideas saved as drafts in WordPress - they are there every time I click on the “Write” tab. Every time I think of an idea I email it to my GMail account from my phone with a ‘todo’ title - GMail tags todo emails separately.

So how are you feeling now? Are you tired? Are you going to blog anyway?