TMST: Blogging

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June 25th: How do you keep going when sometimes blogging feels like too much?

Yes honestly how do I do it? It feels stressful and too much a lot of the time.
There are books that need to be read.
I want to have posts up!
I need to write said reviews.
I want to visit and comment on my blogs!
Emails to write and answer.

But the thing is that I love it! (and hate it), I could not stop even though I want to, Though now I have actually relaxed a tiny bit, before I was all I need to check blogs this minute! Now I am , ok I am busy, it can wait 2 days (Sorry Karen! I used to be first on your blog *sobs* lol.)

• So one answer is I learned to relax and let go a bit, and sometimes when life got too hard, I deleted all new posts so I had no blogs to visit. That felt wonderful!

• And I wrote short reviews, I could still say all I wanted in them. They did not need to be an essay as long as I got my point across. So yes write short ones! They are still good. Because if you are like me then you want to write something at least, that is how I remember when it takes 3 years for me to get the next book.
• I am not going to say do not accept too many books cos dang that is hard! I am trying that with audiobooks since I know I will be busy soon, but how to choose, how to choose?! But I will try because then the pressure will not be as big.
• I like doing tmst because then I have something else than just reviews, and this one spring I wrote them all in advance, so that meant I had posts for 6 months! Point to self, i should do that now!
• I also have Carole over once a week (might ask her to do twice a week, surprise Carole, I hope you say yes ;) And that helps. Because I am still so dang obsessed with having posts. Yes, I am addicted to blogging.

Ask yourself, do you still love it? If the answer is not then take a step back. I have seen SO MANY come and go, so many. This can be a love for a year, for 5 years, it does not mean you have to love it forever. You can always come back.

And as for all those emails I know we all get, I just delete most of them. I am not going to answer everyone and say no thanks. Just delete, just delete.

This is supposed to be fun! All that matters are books. Remember that, books. However you want to write about them, short, long, pics, mix it up.