I'm a Horrible Blogger

I have a confession to make and that is I am a horrible blogger. Here are four highly ineffective traits of this blogger*:

Lament, lament just a little bit longer: When I blog I tend to dwell, read and reread. I think.too.much. I read over my blog ten times before I publish and then twenty more times before I tell anyone about my published post. Questions I ask myself: Is it long enough? Did I touch upon all the possibilities? Is my junior year English teacher reading this with her red pen in hand and if she is, will she judge? Slowly I am putting these questions down and learning to use blogging for what it's for: to connect. Shortening my posts will also help the lamenting process too.

My last post was when? Nah....: I have friends who are consistent blog writers. They are so dependable. That's not me. I post once a month, okay once every other...alright when it strikes me to finally sit down and get over my habit of lamenting too long over what I am writing. Honestly, I'm constantly blogging in my head about the daily happenings in my classroom; the challenges and speed bumps. So if my brain could just automatically post here as if it was using an osmosis version of Dragon, I would be right up there with my consistent friends. What I have settled with is that timing, like all things, is different for everyone. 

SQUIRREL! Distraction is this bloggers fatal, mortal enemy. I will start thinking about a topic, start writing and then start raising further questions that spiral into a dark, tabbed abyss of googles. I've learned not to multi-task and listen to my favorite podcast and close the thirty-five tabs I often have open. Focus is a steady friend but I truly have a terrible habit of starting posts and 

Who cares? I will often sit down to write about a topic, thought or happening in the day and get trumped by the thought, "who cares?". There are so many teacher blogs about micro-topics that I convince myself it's been said or done before. The resolve to this is that blogs are meant to connect and share experiences.  Who cares if it _has_ been done before, let's mind meld my epic educator compadre here, there and all wheres that the topic has been covered. 


* The catalyst for this post are my curiosities about the teachers who hold themselves back from blogging because of these and/or similar reasons. I wanted to reach out and share that they aren't alone in their blogger-sphere speed bumps. In the end, blog for you first and if you keep building and connecting then eventually one, two or even the entire "they" will come to return the sharing.

Yes, I did read this post ten times before publishing.