Keep away from distractions while blogging
When was the last time when you sat to blog something and you got diverted. Which made you loose interest in the topic and you never blogged it again. Blogging requires some serious dedication and discipline. These are tough to achieve if you have too many diversions. A successful blogger is one who blogs regularly and is away from all diversions. In this post we will see what are the common cause of these diversions and how to overcome these diversions to help us save time.
The biggest diversion is our social network. When you are the most busy, everyone seems to be remembering you and start diverting you to the topic which they like to discuss. Which makes us to loose focus to our topic, ultimately loosing interest in the post itself. There can be situation when you are expecting someone at those times you can be in invisible mode. Let us see the various social interactions that can act as a diversion.
By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination. -Christopher Columbus
Messenger service ( Yahoo, MSN, GTalk etc.)
These are probably the biggest trouble makers, mainly because of the reason other user can start an interaction. Even though you might not be interested to start an conversation they can start it and it would be too rude to tell them no. You can use a status message like “I’m Busy” etc. But it hardly adds any value. People will just buzz you to ask, what are you busy with? The best way to avoid this situation is by either staying invisible or signing off completely from the messenger service. If you still want to chat while working, turning off the chat sound would be of great help. So you can chat with them at your pleasure without much diversion.
Social networking websites ( Orkut, You tube, myspace etc.)
Another trouble maker are social networking websites. Sometimes as you will be busy blogging, just to check who’s online you login into your favorite social network only to be sucked up into it. It is a well known fact that social networking websites can be addictive. There is not much you can do this to avoid it. Couple of things that you can do is
- Use a url blocking software. Enable the software as you start blogging. So even if you enter the url it will be blocked which can remind you to resume your work.
- Another way to avoid this is by not using the browser itself. I always prefer to blog on a word processor first and then transfer it to wordpress. This way I don’t have to run my web browser until I am finished with the content.
Your mobile phone
Your own personal mobile phone too can be a big distract . Specially those forward messages that can reach to you at random timings. Personally I have lost many good points while blogging just because my phone started ringing suddenly. It is better to put your mobile in silent mode. If there is a call let it ring, if there is a message let it not notify me. You can always change this in your mobile profile. If you want to completely get rid of your mobile phone while blogging, I would recommend you put the mobile for charging. As the charge lasts longer when the mobile is charged after turning it off.
Browser Crashes
This can be really frustrating, you are almost done with your post and dang this software has performed an illegal operation and the browser closes. I would bet after this happens you wont have enough courage to write the post all over again. Browser crashes can’t be avoided but we will see how to recover if it ever happens while blogging.
- Don’t open too many tabs/windows while writing your post. A lame website is enough to make your browser crash.
- As I mentioned early in the post do not blog directly into wordpress, blog it on a word processor and later move the text to your wordpress blog. If you still love blogging directly into your wordpress blog I recommend you use the “Save and Continue” button as frequently as possible. This will save the file as a draft, so in case of a browser cache last saved content can be recovered.
- Close unnecessary applications, specially if you have a lower memory in your system.
It will be tempting for you at the beginning but as you will get used to this you will realize that you are blogging more frequently and more importantly blogging better than ever.
I actually wrote this post at my personal blog jeba.in, but thought it would be a worth to share it here at beautiful scraps too.
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I am a new blogger.. thanks for sharing these tips here.. Nice website.. keep it up!