How long do you spend writing a post?

[Invader_Stu]

Are you one of those bloggers who can write a post in one draft and get it right? or do you write and re-write until you get it perfect? How long do you spend writing a post?

Personally I find there are some posts that just write themselves and then I have ones were I just can't seem to get it how I want it for a long time to the point that I end up just re-writing the same sentence over and over again. How about you?

[PJ SNS]

A lot longer than I intend to. There is a lot more to it than people think whhen you are putting yourself, and your thoughts, "out there." I find that I even make changes after I publish a post because seeing in it's final format usually mean tweaking a few things. Good luck with your blogs.

[ChickenFreak]

It depends on the post, but I generally don't do a lot of long heavy-research posts, so it's rare for it to take more than a couple of hours, and the short ones can take only a few minutes.

Pretty much every post gets very heavily edited. About half the time I write the whole post, then completely restructure the whole thing. Then I tweak wording, often shuffling sentences around. Then I proofread it to make sure that I didn't introduce any errors in all that tweaking. Then I read it for meaning and usually tweak a few more words. Then I proofread it again.

Sometimes when I get to this near-complete state I realize that I really hate the whole post - it's usually too serious; I hate my serious 'voice' - and I completely restructure it again.

Then I put in the links and the image and the image credit and I proofread it again. Then I post it and proofread it again. Then I correct the errors that I inevitably missed before posting it and post it again. Then I proofread it one more time and tell myself that that one missing comma isn't going to kill anyone.

I can't help editing. Heck, I completely restructured _this post_ after writing it. I tell myself that as long as it doesn't take too long and as long as the writing gets out there, it's not perfectionism, it's practice.

Edited (ha!) to add: I generally don't rewrite sentences as I'm writing them, though. I let all the thoughts flow first, and only then do I start pushing the pieces around and editing them.

[FrancisD]

If it's really interesting then It will probably go around 1 to 2 mins on forum posting.

[linkmoko]

Well for me it's depend on the topic i wrote usually for me if it is about sports, movie reviews, or other form of entertainment i took around an less than an hour only to create a post.

[ryn894]

I like Chicken Freaks methods, I SHOULD be doing that but I don't.

Personally, mines takes between 20mins to about and hour or so depending on the topic. I share my life story in my blog, so it doesn't take that long to write about - but to make it cohesive and understandable is what takes me forever. Sometimes I think things are funny, and people don't get it. So I need to make it "normal" then people will laugh.

The editing takes a while too. Sometimes I swap between things while blogging, like my itunes, blackberry, roommate, friend, facebook etc etc etc. So I end up writing half a sentence then move on to the next one. So going back to the sentence and figuring out what I was going to write was strange.

I also take a while completing my thought in ^ - because I just write then edit, I have to develop the thought (leading up to it), state the though and then tie it into the cohesiveness which takes a while (-_-)

OH! And pictures! I always try to take pictures, but I also have to watermark them and post them. Sometimes my computer revolts and goes really slow when I boot up my photoshop.

[Hunni]

Hmmm...not too long. Between 10-35 minutes. I'm just one of those writers that write in the spur of the moment or when I'm dying to get something off my chest. But I am a huge fan of editing! So although I write my blogs all in one sitting...I frequently go back and edit a few things.

But I agree with the poster above. So many times I try to make a joke and it's funny to me but once I post it and read it, I'm like wow, nobody's going to understand that but me. So i'm always editing my blogs!

[WhoJayBe]

Yeah, it all depends on the specific post and what I'm saying. But for the most part, I just write it, glance over it for any real stand-out mistakes and then just publish it.

On the other hand, if I was writing an eBook, I tend to become a stupid perfectionist because those should be higher quality and helpful/useful. Those take me forever it seems ....

[chuckles]

Usually it goes quite quick for me to create a blogpost. The words just comes to me

Recently, however, I've gotten involved in doing some co-blogging for a music blog (Padraig's Musicbox) and that has proven to be a little bit harder and I spend about 30 minutes to come up with something.

[apolosgreen]

it takes me about 3-4 days to write a article as i get very little time after all the blogging and all other work.