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I am contemplating what I should do with my blog and I am looking forward to following along with this upcoming series you are talking about.

One question I really have is to do with finding a reason for me to continue blogging and what makes people tick when it comes to blogging. I personally am struggling with content for my blog, as I haven’t found something I am passionate enough to write about. I need to find my blogging voice, and I hope this series will show me ideas and how people find something that motivates them to continue blogging.

I blog to write myself to where I want to be, to process what’s happening in my life and in the world, and to continue to hone my writing skills. I write to connect with others and keep my creative well flowing. Writing isn’t optional for me anymore. After blogging off and on since around 2005, blogging has become as essential to me as breathing. I’ve come to depend on this creative outlet and love how it makes me pay attention to my thoughts and to develop my ideas. Blogging has helped me formulate my philosophy and approach to living.

What keeps me blogging is effort – plain and simple. Sometimes it’s easy, but sometimes it gets hard to come to the keyboard. When that happens, it’s because I’ve started losing interest in the topics I’m writing about. I know it’s time to freshen the blog and start taking it in new directions or to switch to a different blog altogether with a new focus. More than anything, allowing my blogging to evolve over time has helped me keep it fresh and keeps me blogging.

Life often gets in the way of my blogging. When things heat up at work and I’m pushing big deadlines, the overtime hours I work there definitely take a toll on the time and energy I have for my blog. I’ve learned to do quick photo essays or shorter posts to fill in when my creative candle is being burned elsewhere. I have a minimum number of posts I try to keep to each week, regardless of what’s happening at work or in my life. Just two brief posts during the week seems to keep thing freshened and readers interested. Once work calms down again, then I’m back to longer and more developed posts and ideas.

I write about living adventurously, pursuing our passions and dreams, and creative productivity.

Anyway, thanks so much for describing that spreadsheet you use. I’ve been using the WP editorial calendar plugin, and your spreadsheet sounds like a valuable addition. It’s all about organizing to be strategic, isn’t it?

We’ve been writing about WordPress for a LONG time. What is it really that keeps you going on and on about WordPress? Are there times when you are just tired of it all?

I have been following your blog since 2007. I have been blogging along the way as well. I started my first blog as a way to promote my business. I blogged about blogging, social media and other business marketing tactics. Over time, my thoughts kind of outgrew that particular blog.

After time I realized how much blogging helped me to clear my head and put my thoughts out there. Blogging is not only a very creative outlet for me, it’s become my daily escape. I am pretty geeky so it’s the best way for me to help my friends and now others start and optimize their blogs. Oftentimes I get emails and people asking me how to this or that so instead of drafting up email responses I now blog about them. Win – win, right?

One of the ways in which I am able to keep myself motived is #1: I only blog about stuff I am knowledgable about and love doing myself. #2: I organize my thoughts into a manageable spreadsheet and have created what I like to call a conversation calendar. In there I list all of the main topics and then break them down into relavent blog posts, social updates, etc. Let me tell you, it gives me a real boost in energy once I scratch something off that list and get it out of head!

Don’t get me wrong, I cannot blog everyday… Simply because some days it’s just not in me – I sit down to write and nothing comes… If that happens I wait until I feel like writing. Once I am in the mood there is no stopping me. I have even written 8 posts before all in one day. I have to take it when it comes. It’s almost like writers block