It’s Friday, so it’s time for the Book Blogger Hop again, hosted by Billy @ Coffee Addicted Writer. I’ve made my own image from a stock photo (credit: Anna Shvets) to avoid adding images created via generative AI to my blog. Feel free to use it too if you would like!

This week’s prompt is about having multiple blogs:

Do you run more than one blog? If so, how do you manage your time?

Not really. I have in the past had this blog and a science blog, but it was indeed very time-consuming to try to keep up with both! I tried to write something once or twice a week for the science blog, while I was posting something here just about every day. The science blog depended a bit on whether there was some interesting news.

Obviously I do a lot for this blog alone, and that does take quite a bit of time. Reviews get written within a day or two of finishing the book, so I don’t forget details, but at the moment I mostly set aside some time at the weekends to pre-write discussion posts like this one and prep some (pre-written) reviews ready to post. Then during the week I mostly come on, tweak the draft with anything that comes to mind, and then write the little blurb I use when posting to social media… and that’s it.

Of course, there’s also responding to comments and visiting other people; I tend to do that either on my lunch break or just after work, and never to skip it for more than a day. When people do me the courtesy of commenting, I do my best to return it — and to do so as thoughtfully as I can. It can be tough if we have little in common, but I do try to be a bit more substantial than just “have a nice day!” or something, as long as time permits.

I do have a journal on one of the successors to LiveJournal, but my friend list there is relatively small, so it’s mostly a tradition of writing something about my day at the end of it, dropping a few comments here and there on others’ posts, etc. I’m not active in communities in the way I was in the golden years of LJ.