I don't really know how to start this because it's quite hard to be honest, not just with you, but with myself. It's a subject that for the last year or so has been a bit of a sore subject for me. I started this blogging thing as a casual hobby, something to get me through University. It was something I enjoyed whole-heartedly, I used to rush home from work or from my classes with a bag full of Superdrug's finest makeup products and I'd sit down for hours and hours of blog post writing and social networking with people I considered my equals. I suppose when I started blogging it was an easier time for me - no real commitments, very few friends. Blogging quickly became a job for me, but a job I loved - one where I got to work with some of the greatest of beauty companies. I got to work with my online best friends and I was honestly so, so happy with the blogging community for around 2-3 years.
Over the last year I have honestly become disheartened with blogging. For those who have been with me since the start, you'll know that I used to blog daily - these days it's hard for me to even write more than five posts a month. I feel lost within a community which at one point I felt wanted me there. But now I can't help but feel like I no longer belong here. Friends who started blogging around the same time as me, have far surpassed me - their blogs becoming more and more popular whilst I allowed my flame to flicker out. My brain registering competition, but not wanting to bother. It should never feel like a competition. If you are doing this for that reason, you're doing it all wrong.
I wish I knew how to fix it. I wish I knew how to get my blogging mojo back, but no matter what I do and however hard I try, my fingers just don't want to type. It's not even like I don't care about what I write about anymore, because I do. I'm still just as into beauty products, and I'm still keeping up to date with trends. But my desire to report it has gone - after all, what's the point of putting your opinion out there if you feel like nobody will read it anyway?
Aw this is so sad to read! It is so tough nowadays with the overwhelming competition! I find that those who are blogging for competition and money are demoralising the very nature of blogging that we love. I feel lost in the huge community too because there are so many blogs out there too! If I was you, I wouldn't feel pressured to put out posts if you don't feel like it. Have a think about what YOU want to get from your blog? Maybe take a break if that's what you feel like. Maybe re-vamp your blog to try and inspire yourself? I don't know, only you can really know/find out. Most importantly though, you need to know that there are people who read your blog! I love your blog! And so do many other people. Hope you get your mojo back!
ReplyDeleteTake care :)
Katie x x
www.littlekaatie.com
Totally feeling you :)
ReplyDeleteIt's so difficult not to play the 'numbers game' in blogging- and when you see your friends have great success- you inevitably ask 'but why isn't it me?'.
The thing I find so hard is being competitive- as that is 100% the opposite of what I'm about and consequently I don't push myself- but I still find it cathartic to blog even when no-one reads what I've written.
I hope you enjoy your break- however long or short it is- you may miss blogging....you never know!!!
x
www.honeybelleworld.blogspot.co.uk