My blogging routine is fairly simple: Every three or four days, I sit down and write a new entry from start to finish. I write between workday, or sometimes at home before dinner, but either way, it’s only about an hour. Then it takes half an hour to collect pictures and get everything ready to go live. Responding to comments takes another hour. Brainstorming happens in the shower, or while I’m having a cup of tea with some sweets and music, so it’s not really “time spent” as such.
So all told, blogging doesn’t take up a lot of my time. That’s one advantage of keeping my posts short. But I find that keeping a blog has noticeably changed my inner life, constantly humming somewhere in the background as I read, or travel, or even when I’m just sitting at home and checking the news. I keep looking for connections, ways to bring things back to the anime I’m watching. It could turn me into a real weirdo if I’m not careful. But for now, I like the mental exercise.
