Always good intentions

There’s always good intentions behind a goal never reached, like losing weight or quitting smoking.

For me, it’s been writing on this blog. I revamped it awhile back, and at the time I was eager to regularly post updates. Then real life took over. I was working long hours and when my days were spent reading and writing, doing more reading and writing when I got home didn’t sound appealing.

My day job (or night job depending on the day of the week) hasn’t changed. I’m still a reporter who spends her days doing interviews, writing stories and editing copy. And I hope that doesn’t change.

But I don’t want this blog to be an afterthought. I don’t want to be able to push it aside and say I’ll write a post later.

So, I’m recommitting myself to regularly posting updates. At work, I also run a government blog for The Herald-Times, and my co-worker and I found that if we carve out a chunk of our day and dedicate that time only to working on the blog then we accomplish a lot more. I’m going to follow the same method here, and Wednesday mornings I will set aside some time to blogging.

Will I post every week? Every other week? I’m not promising an exact schedule, but I am promising to work on it more often. No more excuses.