I do think about my goals and objectives fairly regularly, that’s just how I’m built. Goal-directed.

For awhile, I really wanted to grow my traffic. The only way I was getting that done was with lots and lots of posting, like 5-7 posts per week.

That just isn’t sustainable for me. I decided that it’s more important to me to have posts with better content to them, not just something that bumps A/H up in the feed stream.

So now I fret a bit that I don’t post frequently enough; and I’m feeling [foolishly] pressured by myself to write important reviews and losing even more momentum. I’m working on relaxing and just posting *what I think*.

Coming out of lurkdom to say I really enjoy your posts on the philosophy of fiction. Why haven’t I commented on any of them? Well, because I tend to spend a couple of days mulling over the post and the comments and mentally composing responses. Unfortunately a couple of days in the real world seem to equal to a couple decades in blogging land time and the window of opportunity to comment is gone by the time I get there. Also I have a very hard time condensing my thoughts down to a few short paragraphs (can you tell?!). Perhaps the rapid moving nature of the internet in general does not lend itself to in-depth, detailed back and forth discussions. Or maybe I don’t think fast enough! Anyway, just popping in to say I love your blog and really enjoy the community of commenters it has attracted as well.

(Oh and your Monday Morning Stepbacks are addictive, following the links is like falling down the rabbit hole, you never know what you will discover.)

Given that that in my goal, I don’t feel I need objectives as such. I have my blog; so I have my voice. I don’t need to do anything else to meet my goal.

However, I’ve found thinking about this really helpful. I do periodically hit low points with blogging and thinking about it now, I can generally relate all of those to a feeling that I am not meeting my goal somehow e.g. when a few months ago I posted about feeling overwhelmed and unable to devote time to blogging: i.e. a fear of losing that voice. I don’t know why it makes me feel better to understand that, but it does.

Also, your post makes me think that blogs are a little like people in this way. They evolve, they change, they have goals whether they realize it, or define it.