Yet another writer projects

[ksmith]

My advice? Stop projecting. If *you* feel blogging interferes with *your* production, ease off or stop. If it has no effect, or if you feel it helps you, keep it up. Because if you stop, I won't have anything to read.

I think posting about the wip, the 70 days thing, and process in general is helping me get going. I like seeing what my friends are up to. I live in a small town with no writers within shouting distance. LJ has been a godsend in that regard.

But I draw the line at reading blogs by writers who believe Hence Me, Therefore Thee.

Comments

[battle-of-one.livejournal.com]

The problem isn't blogging, it's the writer's own discipline (or lack thereof). Who's to say blogging is bad? Sometimes we need our brains to back down from a book to recharge and talking with other writers or reading about your peers can be encouraging. I don't blog regularly but for those who may blog and have it negatively affect their writing... if it wasn't blogging it'd be something else. People don't need to throw out the baby with the bathwater. I see where she's coming from but to each their own, and every writer knows in themselves if they're wasting time on a blog when they should be writing. And so they can take that responsibility and not blame an outside source.