Do you take a break from blogging at the weekend?
When someone starts a blog with the intention of making it a success there is usually a mental commitment that comes along with that. A commitment that means that missing a day when one intended to post makes him feel as though he has messed up, or failed in some way.
Somehow though that feeling goes away at the weekend and there doesn’t really seem to be a good reason why that should be.
I have written a few series on various blogs now, and every time I do it I plan to post on the weekdays and enjoy a nice relaxing weekend where I can ‘get away with’ not posting. This has never been a conscious choice. At no time did I think that no one would be reading, or that people would want to catch up on the week’s posts or anything as logical as that. I just took a few days off.
At the same time though I would stare at my feed reader wondering where all the bloggers have gone.
So why are the weekends so slow? Are bloggers deciding not to write because the readers aren’t there? Or are the readers not there because the bloggers aren’t writing? Are we in the typical Catch-22?
If you skip the weekend, what are your reasons? If more bloggers wrote on the weekend, would you want to read more? If more readers were around to read, would you want to blog more? Or are two days a week of lax blogging a nice break? Please weigh in.