I’ve been thinking of stopping my daily digest, and changing it to a weekly or monthly newsletter, a bit like my dear friend Richard Taylor. The problem for me with that is it will remove the daily discipline of having to use my brain – the neuroplasticy workout, and I suspect reading a whole week or months worth of musings will be too onerous for many of you. If of course, I continue to bother to write daily!
It is easy to change, and I feel no guilt or even worry about changing my blogging goal, but I do know the change in my recipe blog from daily to ‘whenever’ has made me rather unfocused!
The other significant reason for daily writing, is the therapeutic value it offers me. It is one of my non pharmacological interventions for dementia, and one of my positive psychosocial interventions for dementia. Like a daily Irbesarten tablet for someone with high blood pressure, or a jab of insulin for a diabetic, I suspect it is no longer optional. Ironically, the latest writing tools, e.g. iPads, are often referred to as tablets!
Of course, you would understand if I stop completely, or miss a day, or change it from daily to weekly, but will my heart and soul suffer? At least for now, I believe the answer to that question is yes!
I really admire the fact that you do write every day, Kate. I have tried it and found it demanding. I look forward to your posts and love the variety of what you write about. I will follow your blogs whether you write daily, weekly on “whenever”. I’d say write as often as you enjoy writing but never feel guilty or have any other negative emotions if things change. 🙂
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You must follow the pattern that is right for you. No one can advise you on that. I think you do very well posting every day but, of course, if you happened to miss a day here or there nobody would hold that against you. What you have to say is so important that, in a lot of ways, the frequency with which you say it doesn’t matter. Just keep saying it…
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kate …… maybe you can get the “best of both worlds” by thinking laterally.
eg. you could shorten all your blog posts so you’re still writing but they’re not such a strain on your time …… or
each tuesday and thursday you can do short posts or just email links to other good blog posts ……… so you are still doing daily posts. And if you’re feelilng unwell you can post short ones or links ……
Know what I mean?
Another idea ……. why not come up with a list of interesting topics about younger onset and post them in a blog ……. and ask a question of all your readers ……… would any of them like to write a blog post about these topics? If so, they could email you ab out the topic and if you agree then they can write a post and email it to you within say a week ……. and you have a few days/ one week to post it online, crediting that person. Know what I mean?
Just some ideas ………
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Greetings Kate….If I may leave off a suggestion without offending you, here goes 🙂 I love and appreciate that you leave off important thoughts and information here for all of the Dementia community to keep them up to date which is most admirable, however, I am wondering if you had a place to concentrate on happier things might not be better. We all know our thoughts create our reality, so if you continue to write about dementia are you not keeping yourself trapped there? Write about freeing, happy, positive, uplifting, inspiring things and make that your focus instead. You could do it once a week if need be or just a short blurb everyday to connect with those you care about. Go wherever your soul is urging you to go. Just a thought friend. Sending you love and high hopes 🙂 VK
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Perhaps you might find that if you deliberately cut back on your daily blogs , that it would become more difficult to remember when you last wrote one. I know I would! Whilst you can still keep up the challenge a sentence, caption, image, would still give you the sense of continuing with a routine and mental stimulus. However you must do what seems best……. for you.
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Your dedication is awesome! I see no difference to exercising the physical body. It can be so easy to say “not today” and the body loses that little bit, and the same applies to the brain.
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I look forward to your blog every day. So keep up the good work you may benefit from your writing but many more of us do as well.
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Then follow your heart! I read once, I don’t remember where, that you must write daily. Even if it is one paragraph, you must write. I’ve been following that advice and found that one paragraph leads to another, and another!
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