Evolution of a Blog
In a month I’ll hit my two year bloggiversary. I was thinking last night about how much this blog has evolved since it began.
Beginning a blog was a thrilling new adventure. The thought of people coming to read my content made me almost giddy with anticipation. I could be somebody. I could have fans! Obviously I started it for the glory, no matter how I may have tried to convince myself otherwise. And at first, it worked.
I browsed blogs by the hundreds, leaving comments everywhere. I posted two and three times a day and comments started coming in. My readership was growing. My stats soon became high enough I was accepted to work with different companies trying out and reviewing products. I held giveaways on occasion but I tried not to let these new opportunities over run my more solid content. It was fun for a time but then the novelty wore off. Sadly, as I stopped doing giveaways some of my readership dropped away. With comment decline came a bit of depression actually. I suppose that’s when you know blogging has taken too much of a priority in your life. When you feel pressure to post quality content or to try and do something drastic to increase your readership again.
It was time to step back and evaluate why I was still posting here. Why I hadn’t just decided to delete the whole thing. I’m sure I’d feel some relief, but I’d also feel some sadness. There are pieces of myself on here that I want others to know about. That I hope will help others in similar circumstances. So I’m going keep it around. And I’ve decided now that for the first time, I want to blog solely for me.
As uninhibited as I’ve become over the years, I’ve still had reservations. I’d always hoped to publish a book of my poetry so I’ve hesitated to share much of it here because if it’s on the web, it will get plagiarized. But I want to share my heart freely even with the probability that to do so will see it pierced.
I’m going to be posting my poetry and videos of the piano pieces I’ve composed and who knows what else. I’ve discarded the feed reader stats and I won’t be logging into wordpress stats anymore. I’m going to post what I want to post without reservation to whether it will make me liked or hated and that is what will make all the difference.
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I’ll keep checking in, regardless. :)
I almost always like “personal” posts best anyway.
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I, for one, am glad you’re still around. Giveaways are fun and all, but that’s not why I pop in.
(In fact, you got an award at my place today. That’s how much I like you. :D)
I’m glad you’re going to be more you, because you’re why I come here. =)
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I’m still reading, Summer — in case you were wondering ;) I’ve just been a lousy commenter and blogger in general for quite some time now . I’m in the same spot as you as far as stats and such — I haven’t checked them in ages. Looking forward to seeing what you’ve been up to with your poetry! ;)
~Michelle
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I’m on eighteen months and the first year sounds so similar minus the giveaways, I never did those. And minus the readers and the comments. I don’t think the ever came. But when I did realize that it was too much pressure and I wasn’t going in the direction of my goals, I scaled back to three times a week or not to keep myself disciplined to write what comes me me as a contribution. I appreciate your courage to do so rather than just step out of it. I sometimes seems like we have to be all or nothing. But I believe all is for other people and nothing steers us away from our own personal goals to never accomplish them. A slower pace has brought me more focus in my other writing. That plagiarism thing is real, isn’t it? Sometimes I wonder if I’m hearing my ideas and words echoed other places or maybe that’s just me echoing theirs. It all runs together on the net and we lose the author in the process.
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Can’t wait to see what you have to say each day.
I’m glad you didn’t delete it… or I wouldn’t have found you at all! You’re great and I think you should write whatever makes you happy!!!
The little that I read today made me miss you! You are a fabulous writer!
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It took me a while to come to the same conclusion and I’ve felt so liberated. I still enjoy reading blogs and writing my own, but I am now comfortable with the idea that my blog is for me. I love that I can write what I want when I want. I think I have finally gotten back to the blog that I started. PS…I loved your poem post! So delicious!
I echo a lot of what others are saying. I have been at the blogging thing for 2 1/2 years now. I don’t want to quit blogging, but I also want to live my life more abundantly and not be on the computer so often. Consequently I am leaving a lot less comments (but still reading) and only posting sporadically. So yes I am here and keep on writing! I enjoy your site.
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