There’s lots of changes chez Guiney of late. As many know, we’ve moved house after seventeen years and with that came a new neighbourhood and a very new and, actually, exciting lifestyle. There’s also my new connection with SOAS as Writer-in-Residence in its Department of SE Asian Studies. Out of that has come the move from back burner to front of my interest in using art for social change, and this has necessitated moving my work in the theatre towards the back of the hob (stove top for you Americans out there). There will also be a newly updated website which should be ready to unveil any day/week now.
So everything feels ripe for change and that includes my blog. As careful readers will remember, I thought about stopping my blog all together which led to my musing here about why we blog in the first place. Of course, after nearly four years, I’ve become addicted to this place and so will not be stopping any time soon. But I have decided to make a subtle change which probably no one but me will notice. For years I have been regularly blogging on Thursdays and Sundays — did you notice? Well, starting later this week I’ll be blogging on Fridays and Mondays. I don’t expect it to make much of a difference to be honest, but it will suit my new schedule better. I know many bloggers write their posts in advance and schedule them for the appropriate times. I have done that sometimes as well. But my ideas are often more spontaneous than that. So my timing will be different from now on. But I have to ask, do you think it matters? Is it just important that there needs to be some sort of regularity in order to maintain your readership or do readers really expect to turn on their computers on a specific day and find a specific set of blogs waiting to be read?
In any event, I’ll next see you here on Friday instead of Thursday, and I’ll have some exciting news about me on Radio 4! And in the meantime, in the spirit of change, here’s a little music for a Sunday afternoon (ps – I have also used this song as a way to trick teenagers into writing poetry….)
Excellent! Can’t wait to hear the news about R4,
I look forward to ch-ch-ch-checking out your posts on the new days.
Sue, I don’t know about your blog, but I get far less people on the weekend. You might find people will end up missing your Friday post. It may be better to write on Friday and let it appear Monday and Monday’s appear Wednesday. I know you said you like to be spontaneous but also I think you need people to see your posts.
Lauri — that’s one reason why I thought I’d change the timing, because less people are reading blogs on weekends and I’d prefer not to write one then. But is Friday the weekend? I thought that was still the last day of the work week, at least it is for me 🙂
First time visitor – Canadian, now living in England for 11 years.
I subscribe to the blogs I read regularly. That way, when someone publishes a new post it is emailed to me. Do you have a subsciption button?
I think regular days are good, but I’m not sure it matters which day. I post on Fridays and I haven’t noticed those posts get significantly less traffic – I have the same loyal band – more or less -regardless of the day.
Writeitdownith: Hi, and thanks for dropping by! As far as a subscriber button goes, at the top of the page above the title of the blog, there is a follow button (although, alas, it is a bit hard to see). If you click on that I believe you’ll be reminded. There is also something else like that at the very bottom of the page although you have to scroll all the way down to see it. I looked for a way to bring it further up but blogger doesn’t seem to allow that. Also, if you’re on Facebook, you could follow my author page which automatically publishes my blogs and alerts people — at least that`s the theory. Thanks for finding me. I’m off to find you now, too.
I don’t think it matters when you post as long as you do fairly regularly.
I look forward to hearing about R4.