I was home from work yesterday since the office was closed due to the snow storm that hit us Sunday night. I shoveled about 5 inches of snow from the walkway but it is still coming done. With this time I thought I would reflect on the past month and my obsession with blogging (before then it was Facebook and LinkedIn). I have never done so much blogging as I did in February. Originally, my blog was for my thoughts (it still is), but I found other bloggers who blogged about books and reviewed them. I decided to do the same. Then I found book contests and authors willing to send out review copies of their books and I was hooked. Before I knew it I had over fifteen new books to read and review!
So I step back now and wonder, am I reading books so that I can review them? Am reviewing books so I can learn more about the authors? What happened to reading for the joy of it? I don’t understand how all these other bloggers find the time to read, review and blog. Somehow, I feel like I am giving something up.
Have I given up the time I would normally be painting? The best part of this whole experience is that I am writing and that is what I want to do the most. Now I just have to start working on that novel of mine!
I would love to hear from other bloggers on how they manage it and what they get out of blogging.
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I have been book blogging for over a year and have more books sometimes than I can read. For me, I have limited what I will accept from authors and publishers. You might want to try to do that if you are overwhelmed by the influx of books.
If I understand you correctly you feel like you may be blogging instead of perhaps doing the other things in your life that provided joy for you.
I know I have fallen into this trap. I kept putting off life. The problem is with that I never would finish my novels or be the mom and wife (the order of that was bad)that God has called me to do.
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