What is blocking your blogging?

I’m not very good with New Year’s resolutions. Like many, I have the tendency to make them and break them within the same week. New Year’s blogging resolutions are no exception. In the past I have decided that I’ll write this much or that much each week and have invariably failed before January is out.

This year however, partly spurred on by a conversation with Oliver Quinlan, I’ve decided to do things slightly differently: I’m going to worry about quality less.

I have realised that one of things that is blocking my blogging, aside from being over-tired and over-busy, is the desire to write the perfect post. I want to put it all together – educational theory with my experience and make it really up-to-date. I want it to be critically acclaimed so loads of people tweet it or re-blog it.

And I’ve realised that I’ve been blogging for the wrong reasons.

Oliver pointed out that there seem to be less people just writing about what they do: their day-in, day-out experience. And I agree, or maybe I choose not to read those people who are blogging about the normal stuff. Either way, for me the realisation is that I’m trying to blog like an educational theorist, when I’m actually I’m just a Deputy Head, trying my best and I need to write about that.

For me, the process of blogging is more important than the outcome. Writing gives me valuable time and space for reflection. The implication being that the audience I am writing for is mainly me – but that’s OK, especially if doing that helps me be a better Deputy Head.

So no longer will fear of failure staunch my blogging flow. I’m going to write. It might not be perfect, but I’m going to write.

2 thoughts on “What is blocking your blogging?”

  1. Agree Steve! I have a blog where I can churn posts out very easily. It has a good readership and everyone is happy. I have an ‘education’ blog which is fairly stagnant when it comes to posts. I worry that I need to have researched my views. I worry before pressing publish that people will rant & tell me it is pants. I, like you have this idea of being ‘up there’ with the ‘in crowd’ of bloggers but I’m not in their league so I will take a leaf out of your & Oliver’s (when did the lad become so right?) & just wruite.

    BTW – you are not ‘just’ a DHT!!

    1. Thanks for your kind words. I also have the goal of setting up a blogging ‘sabbath’ where I ban myself from writing for a period of time and just read…

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