Bloggy Plans

Mostly talking to myself here - as we move into the fall season.

Thinking about what works in my blogging and where I want to go with it....

First of all, I want to try to keep things short(er) and simple(r).   This will be a process.

One thing that might help me is keeping a list of ideas, and thinking about them when I'm doing other things, and then keeping my writing time to about 15 minutes. 

OR spent a couple of hours writing several posts and post-dating them -- this seems to work for me since my ideas come in bursts. 

What I like in blogging:

• Coming to insights that wouldn't have hit me if I hadn't blogged about them.
• Taking notes on books and excerpts from books (helps me remember them better)
• Capturing quotes (commonplace book idea) and links to things I want to remember
• Preserving memories (photos, some journaling -- I find I do increasingly less public journalling now that my kids are older -- I think it's intuitively related to their privacy).
• Organizing my thoughts
• Keeping accountable to my plans
• Looking back over them to see what was going on at a given time.
• Recording my reading (I don't do this faithfully... but still...)
• Doing series -- I like the continuity.   But try breaking them up more? 

What I'd like to focus on more or keep focusing on (no particular order):

• journaling (if I can  figure out a way to do it)
• Helpful ideas (things that have worked or seem like they might work)
• Literature
• Simplicity and poverty of spirit
• My faith
• Rule of Life
• finding beauty in ordinary life 
• continuity (themes in posting)