I’ve been woefully behind in blogging. I’m teaching a class in blogging starting June 10th, and have been working on curriculum and other projects that have timelines, and there just has not been time to check in on the blogs.

Everything, it seems, requires writing. Sometimes that is a huge drain. I mean, put me in a room with people and I can talk till I am blue in the face. I can write for days as long as I have a compelling topic that I want to convey. But demand that I come up with something fresh, and new, several times a day, for multiple websites and blogs, and I eventually run dry, until I refuel.

Currently, the projects that I am in the middle of which include writing, consist of the following;

  1. 4 different blogs, which have a goal of every other day posts. That’s two articles per day average.
  2. Two upcoming classes -Blogging for Business, and Images and the Web (through the University of Wyoming Enrichment Program). This requires the equivalent of 1-2 pages per day.
  3. MicroWebmasters Alliance - A massive project requiring additional writing - it still needs about 300 pages of content added, some of which I have, but just need to prep for online use, some of which is still in my head, some of which needs to have scripts written, or handouts prepped.
  4. Front Porch Folks - Another massive project which requires about 200 pages of writing.
  5. A new project which will only require about 30 pages of writing.
  6. Our hosting site documentation - a project requiring probably 150 pages of writing, several video tutorials, and multiple reference manuals.
  7. Documentation for our business - perhaps another 100 pages of writing.
  8. Several online forums which I maintain, volunteer for or participate in. Each has varying degrees of writing commitment.
  9. Several clients who require that we produce written articles or pages for them on a regular basis.
  10. Clients who correspond via email - this means typically between 30 and 50 emails per day.

My fingers and my brain are challenged heavily. I love my work, but some days there just is not enough to go around.

So now, I’m getting ready to teach a class on blogging. I’ll be including strategies to keep up with a high writing demand, but I doubt any of my students will be required to do that much writing!

My typing speed is increasing yearly. Nothing like practice to make you faster at typing!