Blogging lessons learned

I've now been blogging for...um...six weeks and I'm going to share something with you: blogging is time-consuming.

A post a day is ridiculously impractical. I'm going to settle for a few a week. One a week, anyway.

I've seen many authors comment that blogging eats into writing time. This has to be true. If you write professionally - or even as a hobby - you're not going to post your blog entry until you've done some editing, run grammar and spell checks, and done some more editing. Maybe you'll reword a few sentences, do a little ruthless deleting, perhaps edit again.

Hey, that's your book you could be working on! I imagine that a blog comes into its own as a procrastinatory tool as an author's deadline approaches.

Here's what I've learned from the blogging experience so far:

1) Blogging takes time.
2) Never say in one post what you're going to talk about in the next one. You're bound to forget.

Oh, and blogging is fun.