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Blogging While Drinking (BWD) -- when do you blog?
Different bloggers write their posts at different times. It's "whatever works for you."
What works for me? Well, I'm a bit random, but sometimes early morning, especially if I'm up before the kids (7AMish), and MUCH more often after the family is in bed, after 8PMish.
A great many nights, after 8PM, find me sitting in front of the computer, writing posts, reading blogs, and leaving comments, usually while enjoying a glass of wine or beer.
Yes, I blog while drinking (BWD). I know a great many other bloggers who blog while drinking as well, and some who couldn't contemplate writing anything while drinking at all.
For example, tonight I'm blogging about drinking while blogging while drinking a lovely glass+ of Ducru-Beaucaillou 2004, a Bordeaux that really needs a few years to drink well but that I'm enjoying anyways.
Does drinking affect my blogging? Well, if so, only in a positive light. It makes the words flow out in a more natural "Ted" style if anything, and if I need to close one eye to focus (or stop seeing double) it's time to quit! That said, it would typically be from exhaustion not intoxication!
Now when I blog in the morning, I drink -- coffee!
If I were a great writer, say like Ernest Hemingway, I'll be blogging with a bottle of whiskey and a pack or two of unfiltered cigarettes and wouldn't stop until the whiskey were gone. But alas, I am no Hemingway! I can merely claim that "my writing doesn't suck real big time anymore."
Ah, so that is your formula~ heh. No wonder I find it so hard to get to your fluency in expressing thoughts. Guess I need to pick up drinking? :P
Posted by: Kian Ann | 10 July 2007 at 09:41 AM
OK, I'll admit MOST posts are sober, often while drinking s cop of coffee!
Posted by: T Demop, Blogging for Business | 12 July 2007 at 08:26 AM
Occasionally I too have written while having beer, or even scotch. Otherwise, I mostly write my blog posts in the afternoon, or after midnight.
Posted by: Amrit Hallan - Content Blog | 12 July 2007 at 08:04 PM
It depends on which of my blogs I'm writing. If I'm working on the more professional one, it's totally sober.
If I'm posting on my personal blog, there is usually wine involved.
Posted by: sapheyerblu | 25 July 2007 at 06:50 PM