Shift
- Posted at: 4:16 pm
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I have never claimed to be a prolific blogger by any means, but over the past few months I had been feeling some general blog burnout. I had grown tired of writing on my site…it began to feel more like a chore. I started to feel like I had to deliver some type of meaningful or entertaining content with every entry. I would find myself writing numerous drafts only to delete them later because I didn’t feel they fit the site. I even debating the idea of doing away with this site altogether.
After some thought, I decided recently to write for myself, not what I think others might want to read. I want to share, but more importantly record, my thoughts and reactions to life, fatherhood and all the events and people that surround me. There will be a shift in content on this site, and I’m sure there will be a fair share of readers who will not like it, but the more I think about it I’d much rather record all the aspects of life no matter how mundane and boring to some, than continue to struggle to write anything.
A lot of bloggers are living the same situation and very few have decided to take the right decision … stop writing stuff that people would like to read and start writing what they really want to write.
Good luck on that
May be i’ll follow your path someday.
I think you write well. I like reading your blog, even though I’m an infrequent visitor. Your writing is easy to read, straightforward and to the point. It doesn’t matter what the content is about, if content shifts you will just attract a different bunch of readers, but you will still be attracting readers. To me it’s not about what people write, but how they write it. I’m not a blogger myself, but I do know a quality blog when I see it.
I think the struggle for the blogger when a blog becomes more personal in nature is how much to reveal, and how to express it in such a way that it doesn’t seem too personal (this will put off first-time visitors who are total strangers because they don’t know what’s going on and feel that they can’t just “join in” from the point they discover the blog), yet doesn’t seem too clinical or distant (which would feel weird and inappropriate).
Sorry, thought I wanted to add another point about liking how fast your blog loads. I notice more and more bloggers these days posting videos (e.g. youtube) on their blogs, which I find pointless (why not just post a link to the video?) and sloppy (no real text content, anyone can post a video, it just takes seconds). Posting videos on a blog, especially if there are dozens of them in many posts on a page, makes the page load slower, and makes scrolling up and down jerky. I like reading your blog because it’s primarily text most of the time (and digestable chunks of it I might add), and isn’t that what a blog should be.