<p>[<a href=”http://www.informationdiet.com/blog/read/500-words-before-8am” target=”_blank”>Article</a>]</p>
<p>Most of us wake and immediately put on our consumer hat. I’m going to attempt to buck the trend by making smaller, but more frequent blog posts before… Well, not 8AM because I’m not awake that early 75% of the time, but 9AM. I won’t carry on with my day until I’ve written something somewhere. It may not be here, it may be one of the zillion sites I use to track all the facets of my life, but I have a feeling most the attention will be paid to the blog. Regardless, I’ll attempt to link most everything to Facebook.</p>
<p>What will I write about? Things that happened the previous day, things happening in the world, interesting articles I’ve read, game reviews, book reviews, movie reviews, or the multitude of blog ideas I’ve had, but seem to collect rather than write.</p>
<p>This article (before this sentence) is only 146 words. Quadrupling that each morning seems like a daunting task so I’m going to reduce my goal to 150. Better than nothing (oooh 172 now! Crap, wait, 178!).</p>
Link: 500 Words Before 8AM
Comments
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Sounds like a lot of pressure. I know some people who are compelled to produce, but generally speaking what they produce isn’t worth consuming. Ensuring yours is will be the hard part.
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I read enough interesting links that I won’t have to come up with new material every day. Think: Tumblr. Maybe once a week write something all my own, but on the other days provide a link to and comment on something I found worthwhile.
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I like the idea. Being so busy at work and using free time to explore, I haven’t had the energy to “sit down and write.” Subsequently, it annoys me I haven’t written a blog entry in 3.5 weeks… despite having two half written. If I find something interesting I usually just share it on Facebook, although that doesn’t really allow for commentary. Of course, no one really reads either place anyway. [crook]
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Yeah, the lack of viewership does hold me back, but it’s certainly not going to increase by continuing down the “I post when I think about it every few weeks” path. So a change is needed… I’m certainly not doing this to get rich off of blogging… it’s more of a personal thing, but increased RSS subscriptions would be a nice bonus.
The problem with cross-posting to FB is people comment over there. Not sure what the solution is.
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I like the idea…good luck
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