As I was eating smoked salmon this morning that we smoked
from the fall salmon run our neighbor caught I was thinking about my next blog.
That’s when the similarities hit me. Fishing and blogging are similar
activates. Here are the attributes for both activities:
Patience
Action
Patience
Rejection
Action
Patience
Thrills
Rewards
Blogging requires patience to come up with an idea, then
write it, then edit it, then think of ways to improve it and then rewrite it
and then hope someone will read it and then read a comment from a reader and
then maybe another comment! If you are really lucky your blog post will be
picked up or run in a wider circulation venue.
Fishing similarities are requiring patience to wait with
your line out, reel it in and recast, get a nibble but nope, recast and wait
and then a bite and reel it in and you landed a fish!
Sometime a blog or a fishing adventure turns up nothing. No
one comments, or you don’t catch a fish. Then other times the blogging and
fishing Gods collide and you get many comments or reel in your quota of fish!
Those thrills and rewards are what keep us going, keep us blogging and fishing.
Do you fish?
Do you blog?
