Okay, so I haven’t posted a blog in ages. Why is that? Well, there isn’t anyone reading my blog and I felt despondent. I jumped onto google analytics and there was 0 activity for February. I was so sad. It even meant that my family wasn’t reading my blog. I had made more of an effort to post. I was thinking of new things to post. I was even enjoying my posting.
So I have to push myself now – my blog can be just for me, I can blog like no-one is reading and write just for me.
I have discovered that I actually really like to write and I enjoy doing a little research into some of my posts. I enjoy creating the pages with the graphics and learning more about the blogging process and reading other blogs about blogging. So blogging really is a bit of a hobby? When I have some downtime I like to draft out blogs in a notebook and then I get around to posting them on my page. I read a lot of Instagram and I really love trying to combine IG and blogging together. If I can make someone happy, make them smile or laugh I a super happy. If I can teach them something or give them an insight I feel I have done something significant with my day. I am not just going through the motions.
My next question to myself then is, why, when my friends, for example, introduce me to someone & tell them that I have a blog, do I wave my hands in front of my face saying, no, no, it’s nothing! Not that this has happened I just with that it would happen.
Maybe because blogging also makes me a little bit braver than I really am. I can be a little bit more of the person I’d like to be from behind my keyboard. I become that creative writer that I was never allowed to be. I am terribly shy. I am introverted and I can be outgoing when forced but it is such an effort. I can’t keep up with how many times I’ve kicked myself because I didn’t ask someone their name and admire their work and talk to them about it. I can do that from behind the keyboard.
I will be blogging for me. I enjoy posting, it may not always be twice a week which is my goal. I will try. If you stumble across my blog and you enjoy it. Drop me a note I would love to hear from you.
I think you’ll find that lots of people have stopped reading and writing blogs and spend more time over at Instagram – probably by the time you started blogging a year ago IG had become more of the daily activity and even people who have been blogging for years have noticed less readers ! Since IG has been taken over by Facebook recently though its changed a lot and I really don’t like the new changes – as Leanne from She Can Quilt said recently
“I find instagram a lot less fun now that it is not chronological. For me a lot of the fun was being able to see what people were sharing right in this moment and connecting with them right now. Well, that seems to be less possible and so it is less interesting for me as now instagram is another thing that I need to “catch up on” rather than “check in to” for a few minutes.”
I so agree with her so I’ve decided that I’m going to spend less time on IG and more time blogging and reading blogs again – I “found” you on IG this morning and really like your blog posts – they’ve been very interesting and informative !