I’m back

I’m back.

If you’re a WordCount regular, you may know it’s been months since my last WordCount post. That’s not like me. In fact, it’s so not like me to take a blogging hiatus, a writer friend who subscribes to these posts through email wrote a while back to make sure I was OK.

I was OK, I just wasn’t blogging.

New Work

Last August, I said yes to a really interesting new editing assignment — more about another time. I couldn’t take on that new work plus keep up with a steady flow of freelance writing assignments, a pro bono communicaitons project I do for my kid’s school every fall and this blog, and not have something fall through the cracks. Or me crack up.

Something had to give, and the most expendible thing was blogging.

I missed it, but I didn’t miss it. Since January 2008, I’ve been posting to WordCount at least a couple times a week, and during blogathon months, much more. I really needed a break. Taking some time off also meant I could pour my creative energies into what I was writing or editing, which was a good thing as I started on a new project with a steep learning curve. If I read something I felt like commenting on, there was always Twitter, or Facebook.

That’s not to say I wasn’t blogging at all. For the pro bono project, I updated a school website and for a couple months, posted on the school blog at least once a week, if not more. That new editing assignment led to an opportunity to ghostwrite a blog post for the head of the organization, something I hope to do more of. I’m also helping brainstorm ideas for a blog that the organization is relaunching soon.

Blogging R&R

In yoga classes, sessions typically end with a shavasana, a reclining or corpse pose where you relax from the more strenuous work you’ve just done and clear your mind of everything but the here and now. Some of my favorite yoga classes of the year are sessions my teacher holds at the end of the quarter, where for half the time or more we move through a series of relaxing, restorative poses.

I like to think of this past fall was my restorative, a time when I recharged my blogging batteries.

I can’t promise that in coming weeks and months I’ll write as frequently as I was before. But I won’t let months go by either. When I don’t add new posts, I’ll rerun some favorites from the WordCount archive.

Until the next time…..

[Flickr photo by Robert Bejil]