The Matter of Commitment, Desire & Twitter
Sunday, July 20th, 2008
I’m sure you’ve noticed the lack of blog posts recently here at WriteTilt.com. I haven’t posted because I’ve been too busy to do so. My lack of posts is quite simple: lack of commitment and desire.
I have fallen victim to these issues before in the past. For three straight years, I blogged very consistently, pretty much on a weekly basis. Back then, blogging was new to me, and I loved the idea of free-form communication on the web without restraints. There was a time when I thought I’d never stop blogging but I did. I didn’t feel as committed to blogging every week and that I was forcing myself to write about something just to post and appease my readers. However, forcing words just for my audience felt false because I just wasn’t feeling it the way I once did. The shiny luster of blogging had worn off, and I also felt burned out. So I took a hiatus and eventually decided to shut my first blog down about two months later.
For approximately one year, I didn’t blog before I got the itch to return. I resurfaced under this domain and took a different approach to blogging from my previous one. I wrote whenever I felt like I wanted to write and tried not to fall under pressure to post every day or even every week. I succeeded and actually thought I could survive the blogosphere, possibly for good. Then Twitter happened.
I love Twitter - when it isn’t failing of course - and used the micro-blogging tool as an “ad hoc service” to blogging here at WriteTilt.com. When I first started using Twitter, I dismissed the tool as a blogging replacement. And of course, you can’t say as much with 140 characters as you can with a blog. However, an odd thing happened to me. As I used Twitter more, my desire and commitment to blogging slowly diminished. I found that I liked the idea of expressing myself in small spurts throughout the day rather than sitting down and thinking about a topic to expand upon in a blog post. Still, I didn’t think that long-form blogging was dead…until I heard a recent Net@Night episode. Read the rest of this entry »

