How often do you blog?

[Noah Coffey]

I've heard some people say posting every day is the only way to be a successful blogger. I don't think I'll ever get to that point unless I have a major career move that involves blogging for my company.

I tend to figure 2-3 times per week is very good, while once a week is a minimum to strive for. Of course, some posts take more work/time to write than others. I'm a fan of taking a large topic and splitting it up over 2 or more posts (like a series).

How often do you blog? Do you wish you did it more often? What stops you?

[Noah Coffey]

I tend to have lots of post ideas. I even start them and save them as draft in WordPress. I probably have half a dozen half written posts just waiting on me. I find some 3rd party apps that let you write posts from your browser like ScribeFire can make it easier to post and start posts. Flickr also makes it very easy to write a blog post about a photo. It integrates with your blog and you can post directly from flickr without even logging in (manually) to your blog admin.

[Theresia Whitfield]

I keep telling myself that I'm going to get into a regular routine of blogging but don't. Life is usually the thing that keeps me from blogging on a regular basis. One of my blogs is pretty emotional for me so, often, fear prevents me from posting, even though I know that writing is part of the healing process for me.

[Stacy Quasebarth]

I try to write a post a day on my personal blog and 3 short posts a day on my design blog - but I do have off weeks where that doesn't happen.

[Noah Coffey]

It can be hard to stick to a regular schedule sometimes. Sometimes a really short blog post or a collection of interesting links you've found recently can be a great way to get new content published

[Colin Clark]

I just wrote a post about how I'm addiced to blogging. Truthfully, I added 3 posts to my blog today. I don't think that's all that bad.

[Kirsten Eamon-Shine]

Content drives my frequency. The more there is to talk about and the more that I've eaten or cooked, the more that I post. But on average - 3 to 6 posts a week.

[Amy Magan]

My original intent was to post once a day. In reality, I've been posting 3-4 times/week. I'm ok with that. One thing that I've found interesting is that what I intend to blog about is not always what ends up in the blog. I'm enjoying the self-discovery process that is part of blogging.

[Maurice Broaddus]

i've heard a couple theories about this. it's like there are three levels of blogging regularity, but regularity is the key:

-weekly
-daily
-3X daily

each level drives a certain amount of traffic. i blog about three times a week or so. (my fiction writing has increased, so i'm down from a blogging schedule that saw me blogging 2-3 times a day).

[Joe Shearer]

I go weekly on my parenting blog, but it's generally a longer blog. My goal has just been contributing one weekly, and let my other writing (for my movie site and my parenting column) keep the juices flowing.

I've really just started reading other blogs, and I've found that a lot of them are shorter, clipped collections of thoughts. My blog is typically a relatively long narrative that recounts a specific story that happened to me over the past week with my kids. I've found that challenging enough, and I personally prefer that to just a quick "guess what my kid just said"? I like to have the context in there too. I'm all about context.