Dear Readers, 

How are you? How is everyone? Today’s post is a bit of a random post, about why I need to Reduce the frequency of my posts. 

Exciting isn’t it? It’ll also be short.. ! 

Why Bother Blogging?

Essentially, the blog is something that I do, mostly for my own pleasure. Do I Hope that someone shows up and offers me $1m a year to Write two posts a week? Sure I do! (Where are you Mr $1m?). However, let’s face it. That’s not gonna happen. Not even in my dreams…

The blog is for fun, but also with the intention of learning some new things. Since I’ve started the blog, I can say that my property knowledge has increased. Sometimes, I’m about to write something, and then I’m like “wait.. how is it exactly?” and I have to look some details up. Sometimes one detail can take half an hour! If you’re really unlucky, you won’t even find the detail…

I’ve also learnt how to create a blog (a website). It wasn’t my intention, but I was curious as to how to promote a blog, so I’ve learnt a lot about that too. So, now I know about SEO (Search Engine Optimisation aka “how to get people to visit your site”). I know about little widgets so people can tweet and like on FB and whatnot. Meanwhile, this blog runs on WordPress (.org not .com) so suddenly, I know how to create a decent website on WordPress too. Is it difficult? No, not really, though this too takes much more time than you’d think. 

One other thing, is that I’ve always felt comfortable writing small articles. Actually, I’ve even authored a book (an academic one). However, I wanted to create a “body of work” too, just to make my own little mark on this planet. If my kids wonder what I was like at 40, they can have a read of this stuff. 

And so I thought I could do a couple of posts a week, and spend a couple of hours a week on it. I’m a pretty quick writer, but uh… no. An hour per post? Not a chance mate. I need to think about what I will write about, then I write the post. To make sure that it’s nice and neat, I need to forget about it, then come back the next day, and tidy it up. I need to find pictures to put (part of the “SEO”) and then think of something funny to write as a caption. Meanwhile, sometimes, the brain’s just not working, so pfffff… (that’s all you get). 

How often should I post then?

As a result of the reality of the above, combined with the fact, that I have a full time job and a family, I need to reduce the frequency with which I post. Regardless of “how often should I post?”, I’m going from twice a week to once a week. I hope you guys don’t mind too much, and I hope you still come back and visit. Though our relationship did not start that long ago, I am kinda used to you now and I would miss you! (It’s not you, it’s me…). 

To conclude, I’m going to post once a week from now on, on Wednesdays. Next post? Next Wednesday…!

Hope to see you then!
SJ

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