Comments on: Take a Break – Battling Bloggers Block

By: Stefan

Stefan — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 11:35:04 +0000

That’s good to hear. Which brings back to mind another very important point that I tend to forget when working too hard: looking over the rim of my coffee mug and forming relationships.

Anyone out there care for a new friend? ;-)

Stefan

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 11:22:14 +0000

In short – I left my blogs in the hands of 50 or so very very capable and generous guest bloggers.

Traffic did fall a little as they were not posting quite as much as I was each day but it was a great experience to know they were being looked after so well.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 07:00:16 +0000

Darren, I hear you. My family life has suffered quite a bit in the last few months due to my workload.
My biggest fear that stops me from taking time off is that the number of daily visits will decline. Now, this might not be a problem if you take half a day or one to two days off, but I would be extremely interested to hear how your blogs developed while you took a whole month off?

Stefan

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By: Brandon

Brandon — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 04:30:00 +0000

Hey Darren,

This is my first comment to your site. I’ve been hooked on every word of the “Blogger’s Block Series” and wanted to say thanks. I’ve already learned a lot just from these posts.

I think the taking time off before getting burnt out idea is very important. I know that often times when I work straight through I get burnt out on various tasks and wind up distancing myself from whatever task at hand for a greater amount of time than I would like. If I take short breaks at various points throughout then I get burnt out a lot less.

I look forward to your next post.

Brandon

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 03:09:28 +0000

Hi Darren,
I like your tip ‘time off’. I just recently started a blog and I’m finding the whole process facinating, so facinating in fact that my wife is now wondering what the hell I’m doing on the computer all the time. (I was never one to spend time on the computer). So I think building time off is on the cards.

Cheers