Think you wanna be a blogger?

Hello dear readers.

Do you want to be a blogger?  You should give it a try.  You might have something worth saying that other people might want to hear.  Never know until you try.  And it's free.

There are a lot of good reasons to do it but that's not the reason for this post.  Let me know if you are interested in wandering down that rabbit hole.

But what I have to say today is just about the time commitment.

I have been working on an upcoming post about the Kenmores 1030, 1040 and 1050 and just happen to have kept track of how long it took.  You might or might not be surprised.

One blog post, one, repeat ONE has clocked in at 9 hours.

The first two hours were a fun playdate with Barbara, in which we did a side by side comparison of the three machines, taking photos and writing down the characteristics of the machines.

The next 7 hours included:

• Editing all the photos.  They might be rotated, cropped, brightened or all of the above.  It doesn't take long per photo to make them look a WHOLE lot better.  In a couple of photos I also added arrows or text to make things clearer.
• Creating a "new post" in Blogger. (takes seconds)
• Writing the text.  Re-writing the text. 
• Adding photos to the text.
• Realizing what was missing from the first photo shoot, getting the 1040 back out and taking more photos.
• Editing the additional photos
• Writing more text
• Emailing Barbara to ask questions about things I was unclear about.  Twice.
• Re-writing some more.

This was standard procedure.  When I first sat down to write the blog post I thought "Oh, this will be a snap because so much of the text is already written".  The notes from the playdate became the bulleted list of characteristics of each model.  But there was so much more to say and explain!  So it became just like all the other blog posts, which all take about this much time.

I'm not complaining btw.  I like doing this and there are those previously alluded to benefits.  But nobody pays me to do this and if I didn't want to do it, well, I just wouldn't.

Just thought you might be interested in the process, especially if you have thought about blogging.

If I was not an empty nest retired widow I seriously doubt if I would be doing this though.  Time is one resource I have plenty of, and this is one of the things I enjoy doing with it.

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Do you blog?  Why not share a link with us in the comments section below.  And let me know if it also takes you this much time.

 Or if you want to blog, what do you want to cover in your blog?

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Edit:  the post on the 3/4 size Kenmores is scheduled to be published on October 6, 2019.