I’m curious about something. I was driving home from the gym tonight (this whole early menopause thing, as well as impending FET has me totally freaking out and running to the gym to lose all the weight and gain all the strength I can) and of course I thought about how I still needed something here for Microblog Monday and it made me think of something.
Bloggers, past and present—I’m curious: Where do/did you blog?
I’ve wrote in coffee shops as well as in the sitting area of my gym while Olivia is in the kid care, but a lot of times those places are reserved for my freelance writing. I’m a terrible procrastinator and it takes me leaving the house and being forced to sit at a table for me to get my work done.
But blogging… I’m usually sitting on the couch down in the basement, the TV on and Chris sitting next to me if it’s evening. I don’t know if it’s because this is my space and I can write how I want, and therefore it’s just a more casual setting, or what, but this is my routine. Prior to Olivia, it was usually up on the couch upstairs, with coffee in the morning, but obviously that doesn’t happen anymore.
Where do you do your blogging?
At a coffee shop? At the kitchen table? On the couch in front of the TV? In bed?
Tell me!
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I think wherever you’re comfortable works! I used to blog at my desk in the living room, which was nice because it was in the middle of things, and sometimes on the couch/coffee table, bit I really love my new office space upstairs. So great for having that room of one’s own. That’s my favorite.
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I actually my “own room” down in the corner basement, which would be wonderful to turn into a big girl office. Right now it houses all my Elvis stuff I inherited from my grandma, but it’s been my scrapbooking room until it got water damaged and we’re still without carpeting because we need to find the source of the leak. Maybe when it’s all done, and I’m finished with my scrapbooking (so much easier and cheaper to do Shutterfly books now!) I’ll make it into my writing area.
Mine answer is pretty boring. At a desk! We have a room that’s half my “office” and half storage space for clothes etc.
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Right now, I have one of those too. A desk that houses the desktop and my husband’s techy stuff. It’s in a room with our canning stuff, wine making supplies and a bunch of randomness that bugs me, but I can’t do anything about right now. So I tend not to be in there much. 🙂
Agreeing with Jess. But I’m also like you in that areas I normally don’t do my writing for work (reserved for the library, coffee shop, office and kitchen table) are where I tend to blog. This previously was the couch, a comfy chair, stairwells and even the odd cafe with internet access, but zero room to settle in.
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Stairwells. 🙂 I love it.
Pretty much always at work because I am at a desk in front of a computer all day. Every so often I may post something quick from my cell while at home or wherever but that doesn’t happen often. It’s just easier for me to do it at a desk top.
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That’s so convenient. My only desk job I had, I did write my freelance articles there during my lunch breaks so it would free up my time at home, but that was about it for blogging at work. 🙂
Oooh, good question. It’s usually on my couch with my laptop. Though there’s one memorable post I wrote in a coffee shop several years ago when my kids were in preschool and I’d spend the 3 hours in a nearby coffee shop to save drive time. https://lavenderluz.com/2008/10/the-coffee-shop-2.html
Ugh on the early menopause. I’m sorry you’re facing this.
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I’m honestly really excited for preschool starting so I can get that uninterrupted time! That sounds wonderful!
99% of mine is done on my desktop at my desk. Every now and again, I’ll be on the couch with my laptop, but I type better on my regular keyboard. Great question, Risa!
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It’s funny what you get used to. It’s awkward typing on my desk top because I’m not used to it.
Before kids, I blogged a lot sitting at my desk at work during breaks. After the babies were born, I blogged sitting at our desk because we only had a desktop computer. Now I have a laptop and blog sitting on the couch! No tv or anything though, because I get distracted way to easy!
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I get distracted too, so it has to be a show I’ve seen before that I don’t have to follow too closely.
Pretty much always on my computer/laptop at my desk in the room that is my office/my husband’s library. I’ve often written blog drafts in cafes on my iPad, but I don’t get to the cafes much since I quit going to the gym across the city, and I miss that. Sometimes topics just popped up when I was out of my normal routine, and that was good.
I do write a lot of blogs in my head though, before I even get to the laptop/computer. And if I’m travelling, I write on my iPad. I’ve written a blog post about my mother’s death on a plane flying home after the funeral and packing up her house, and recently wrote one on a train in Norway. Wherever the mood takes me.
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I’ve tried writing on the iPad. I think it’s something you have to get used to. And yes, I do a ton of posts in my head. And then I go to write them down and it never comes out as well as it did in my head. 🙂
On the couch, usually with the TV on and the laptop on my lap.
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Ah yes. Me exactly. 🙂
On my train ride into/from work. Most often while I am eating lunch while I am at work…
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That’s a great use of your time!
Mostly in a comfy chair in my living room. Sometimes at a coffee shop or coworking space. I’ve gotten some good drafts started in the 20 minutes I have to wait at my allergy clinic every week or two. There’s no wifi, so I just do some focused freewriting. Sometimes I’ll even blog from my phone if I’m in between things, and that’s what I have with me.
I like these little glimpses into everyone’s world. 🙂
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Comfy chairs and blogging is the best! I’d love to hear more about your focused freewriting!
Basically, I choose a post/topic to work on, and while I’m sitting in the waiting room, I just write. As much as possible, I shut down my inner critic and try not worry if what I’m writing is good/clear/accurate/interesting or if the post makes sense or has a captivating opening paragraph, etc. I might start in the middle or with some rambling side story that ends up getting cut out. The point is just to write. Since there’s no internet there, I’m not looking things up or adding links yet. It’s much easier to do that later (at least, in my opinion). Just starting to write, getting words down is harder.
Usually, I see what I want to write before I leave and think about it on the drive over. Sometimes I pick two or three things to work on – not with the idea that I’ll get everything done, just so I can switch to something different if I really can’t get started on one thing.
At the end, I’ll have a rough draft or maybe a few fragments, but it’s big jumpstart!
If you don’t have built-in waiting room time, you could do something similar (when Olivia is sleeping or occupied) by setting a timer for 20 minutes and either writing on paper or turning off the wifi on your device. Pick a topic before your timer starts, and then go to town! 🙂
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I definitely need to shut down my inner critic. I’m a perfectionist, and I see it mostly in my freelancing vs my blog itself. I have to get better at freewriting and leave the editing until after I’m done with the article. I love the idea of the 20 minutes of writing.