One of the most widely circulated real-news stories this year is The New York Times’ In Wide Word of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Til They Drop.   Chances are, you already read it, had it emailed to you or heard about it.  Considering that I’m a freelance writer, it was a story hard to ignore.  The story alleges that bloggers can kill themselves blogging in the hunt to report the Next Big Thing and thus give their sites a larger chunk of revenue share.

However, I hate to disappoint you, but blogging is not stressful in and of itself. In fact, I find it to be a real relief from my daily stress.  I have two personal blogs that don’t generate money and three professional blogs that do.  There does seem to be a difference between the blogger interviewed for the New York Times article than for "normal" bloggers.  The former — and most stressed out kind — are journalists where the deadline was always yesterday.  Don’t let their job pressures dissuade you from writing a diary, journal or blog.  Getting your thoughts out of your head and onto paper is one of the most economic and effective ways of managing stress.

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