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Blogging: What Works for Me.

Prompt: How to address summer slumps with blogging.
Do you have any suggestions to keep our blogging on track? I know some of you are not in summer right now but you probably have the same fatal attraction with real life... as those of us here in the states. Help, what works for you?

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Writing to prompts works for me. Before I started with Blog City, I was still blogging, but because I limited myself to blogging about the writing craft and surrounding issues, my blogging was highly irregular. Once I started with BC, blogging became fun, even on the busy days. Sometimes, when the prompts are startling or out of my range, I try to catch them from their tail end or from any edge or point, and something---good or bad—always surfaces.

The only time when I stopped blogging was a few days after we were into G.O.T, probably because I wanted to do the games full time, and since G.O.T is also writing, I consoled myself with the idea. The same thing may happen when NaNo arrives in November, if I decide to do it this year. I skipped it last year and felt its emptiness inside me. I don’t want to skip it again, but it is still too early to decide.

Summer slump means nothing to me, since where I live the weather is so hot and humid or stormy this year, we rarely dare to go out unless it is absolutely necessary, but still we have things to fix in, around, and on top of the house with workers coming and going all the time. With all the distraction and things to keep an eye on, my time is again limited.

In addition, my hours are not as regulated as they were when, in our house, everyone worked or went to school. I don’t have the regular work and play hours anymore, but it is much worse now, because I don’t know just when whatever emergency or a need either in my house or somewhere around the neighborhood will spring up on me. So I write the blog piece just as soon as I can. This entry, I have started writing at 11:50 PM and probably will post it sometime after midnight.

To put all this together in a nutshell, writing the entry as soon as I can by using the daily BC prompt works for me in any season.