Things can slip away from you when you are not paying attention. Bit by bit. Piece by piece. Until you are standing somewhere you don’t recognise. Blogs can be like that. A blog can be eroded by things that you think you should do, instead of gaining strength from what you want to do.
I no longer wish to grow my blog. That’s one thing that I learnt while I was away. So I don’t need to do things like share my posts on twitter multiple times, or post every day or build my social media following.
I only want to post something if I am really proud of it. Too often I’d just put up an image, even if it wasn’t a particularly good one and write a rambling post. And now, I won’t. I hope I will post several days a week, but it might be one or it might be none. But everything I put up I will be happy with.
I am going to be on social media to be there. I am there to have fun. I am there to share things that I create so that people will connect with them. So I’m no longer worried about the conversation happening on my blog. I am using social media as a digital publishing medium rather than a link following medium.
I hope that after all of that I will be back in my own house. Not outside of it, wondering where the hell I left my keys.
Wow! Thank you so much for that. I feel like you have just shared your epiphany from Blogher. Thank you.
I guess I kind of did!
Oh I love this! I have been having the same struggle myself and I feel exactly like my space is not my own. I hope we both reclaim our awesomeness soon x
Thanks Holly! We can be vaguely homeless together while we figure it out xx
Fantastic goals.I waiver with the growing thing. I don’t think I’m quite where I’d like my blog to be so I push to grow but sometimes, like right now, I don’t have the push in me and I have to accept that stepping back is in MY best interests because in the end there needs to be a person here to write the words. And to have stories to share I need to go out and create them.
I love a good blog break to make it all fun again
That’s exactly how I feel! I’m always cheering for you Z, always xxxx
We are always connected. xox
You’re awesome Zoey. And I just wanted to say that photo is amazing.
Thank you! New York is doing all the heavy lifting in my photography at the moment
LOVE!
Thanks Megan!
My personal blog only exists atm because it’s the biggest referrer to my business blog… sad but true!
Ha! Funny how they works!
Good point about social media being a publishing medium in its own right, I love Instagram for that, and Twitter too. On my blogs I don’t tend to be too personal, but Twitter and Instagram are great for expressing quickly what’s happening right now… as well as being social.
There are so many platforms now it’s great that people can use them exactly how they want to and what suits them.
Since I was at the same event, I’m curious if there was a single moment or discussion with someone that prompted this change of view?
It was actually a whole heap of different things that collided together. I’ve felt for some time that my blog was never going to be huge and I actually liked it small and although I could have changed things to make it more ‘popular’ or have a broader appeal I didn’t want to. And so instead of attempting to monetise or make money off my blog I’ve moved those efforts into other projects like the social media consultancy and something else that is in the pipeline.But I was really inspired listening to some photobloggers talk at Blographer about how they share their content and how little it mattered whether it was on their blog, google + or facebook. And I feel like something really clicked for me when you said in the #blog2012 session about how if twitter killed your blog then maybe twitter was your true platform. That made so much sense to me.
I love that you wrote this – I feel exactly the same about my own blog, and have moved to a much more authentic way of writing over the last few months. Happy blogging
Thank you!
[...] I like the words, pictures and the truth she tells on her blog. I couldn’t help but notice this post after our time in New York. “I am going to be on social media to be there. I am there to have fun. I am there to share [...]
Oi… I have had these very same thoughts. In fact I wrote a kind of similar thing on my blog yesterday {although not nearly as eloquently as you}. Glad that my current feelings of being a bit out of kilter are not unheard of in the blogosphere… More power to you!
Good for you and choices..great stuff. I’m blogging now only when & if there’s something to write to be connected and about what I know best, education & schooling. Life is much more than a blog. Even though I am grateful to have blogged I like the busy without the need to type, find a photo or 3 & re read then hit publish. Wish you loads of fun outside and wherever the journey takes you next… Not growing the blog. Denyse
Thank you Denyse!!