I now have one million half written blog posts in my drafts folder (more or less).
I suspect this is a pretty common situation.
This morning I’m declaring blog bankruptcy and accepting that I’m never likely to have the time to finish many, if not most, of them.
There are a few which are pretty much done, but have just never been published for various reasons. I’m going to keep these, and push them out over the next couple of days.
In keeping with my theme of the moment, the others are toast.
Deleting them is a big relief. If I’d known that I would have done it much sooner.
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Of course, there are some of us who take it to the other extreme and write on the spur of the moment(albeit at a set time in the day) – making it up as we go along!
Jim -
Sounds like you need to be setup on Twitter.
What *are* you doing?
:-)
Rowan.
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