Fellow bloggers, hands up anyone who’s been overcome with an absolute burning desire to write a blog post at the exact same time that you ‘should’ be doing something else? That report you need to finish writing? Housework to do? Cat needs a bath? (I was joking on that last point)
Right now I should be writing an article I’m planning on pitching to a newspaper but, what do you know? I can’t possibly start until this urgent post is out-of-the-way! I know. Pathetic isn’t it? I’m fully aware that I’m distracting myself because blogging is safe and rewarding (who in their right mind wouldn’t want to write about dogs all day?!) but pitching new ideas to scary editors is, well, scary!
So that my wasted ten minutes isn’t completely wasted, I’ve coined a new term purely for my own amusement:
Blogstraction – the act of writing blog posts as a distraction.
There. Post done. I’ll just make another cuppa before I tackle that article….
The Little Bear Dog Blog 
Oh yes – so true. Now… if you’re making a cuppa…?
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Nice try squirrel 😉
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I went through that not so long ago and I decided to time myself, yikes! It took me three hours to get a blog post looking and reading just the way I wanted… three hours… that’s when I discovered that this was more than de-stressing, it was a true task… of course now I’ve gone MIA for weeks in a row because I have not had three whole hours to spare! I think I need to learn to be concise and direct in order to practice “blogstraction” 🙂 big hug and all the luck and good vibes on your article! Alexandra
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Thanks Alexandra! I always love your comments. It’s such a good point about timing yourself – I should definitely do that, then again it would probably just distract me Big hugs back and look forward to reading you soon when you’re back 🙂 x
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Thank you!! 🙂 my timer nowadays is my laptop battery, since I am always working on something else, if I get the urge to blog, it’s a race against my battery charge… that kind of explains the blunders you might encounter
jejejee take care and hope to write something interesting soon with a full battery
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So you’re not just efficient, you’re energy efficient too! Love it 😉
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