Apologies are in order. I haven’t been as good a blogger friend as I should, and I neglected in visiting my friends. There’s no excuse for it and I’m sorry if I haven’t dropped by recently.
I get lazy sometimes and over the past few months, it’s been building. When I opened my reader, I’d think “Well, I’ll comment on the post tomorrow, or maybe wait until their next post.” It kept happening over and over until I finally realized that I wasn’t making any effort at all. I just kept saying “tomorrow.” It’s very intoxicating because really, tomorrow never comes.
Obviously, being in the middle of NaNoWriMo isn’t going to help me get back on track, but I’ll do better, I promise. Social networking is very important to writing—we have to connect with people. But I tend to forget that you have to continue connecting. It’s not a one-time thing. It requires effort, daily effort.
So baring death by NaNo-induced brain cramp, I’ll see you around.
We all have those times when we get into lapses of blog reading.
ReplyDeleteLaziness excused. I legitimately like to stay in touch with things so I visit tons of blogs but I can understand why one wouldn't want to.
ReplyDeleteI've been having a hard time keeping up, too. It's okay. You're normally around, so if you disappear for a bit but return, no one is going to think any less of you for it.
ReplyDeleteYour excuses are way better than ours (no Nano for us and there are two of us!). We'll all get back to it as we can!
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I hardly ever look at Reader right now. I'm kind of relying on my blog roll, and the comments I get on my blog posts, to keep me in touch with people. I'll click on new posts on my blog roll, and I'll visit those who leave me comments. Even that gets a bit much most of the time. But the Reader? I'm willing to be there's a few thousand posts I haven't looked at since the last time I marked that thing "Read all".
ReplyDeleteNo apology needed here - I'm feeling the same :) It's awesome to see you around - however often (or seldom) it is!
ReplyDeleteNo apology needed here - I'm feeling the same :) It's awesome to see you around - however often (or seldom) it is!
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