What you owe your readers is a good read. They will wait for that good read because that is why they follow. So when you get lazy and feckless and your life gets in the way, you take the pause you think you need to so that you are true to yourself. Being true to yourself keeps it real and that’s okay if it ends up being sporadic. (Good ‘small talk’ posts can work too when the meaty stuff is still simmering in the brain. Don’t we do that all the time in real life?)

In terms of regular posting it is something that I find difficult. I feel the guilt constantly so I am considering not making each post such a big thing (story, information, recipe) as days off are rare.

I’ve never ever regretted it and still find the whole experience fascinating, if a little overwhelming at times.

Unfortunately I tend to assume this is the same of other people.

“Are [bloggers] aware of the identity/style/ego that they employ on their blog as being different to the one that they use on Twitter?”

Some people more so than others. I would say I’m the same on Twitter as I am on my blog and, indeed, in real life (though a tad shyer).

Balls, this was excellent and provided lots of discussion – would welcome more of the same

I think that might have to be the tack from here on in…

I’m probably the only one anal enough to do this, but I often find that I have one day here and there during which I have time to write not just one but two or three or even four posts. (I always have a backlog of things I’m eager to write/ share but haven’t got to yet).

I think it makes more sense to spread them out so I use the inbuilt post date/ time thingummy to set them to post every 3-4 days.

So, most of the time, though not all, I already have some posts written and scheduled to go up over the next 10 days.

You could do similar if you wanted, by writing a few extra in advance.

Or, I rather like James’ idea of writing a post on cooking without a kitchen!