My first blog was born in WordPress around 5 years ago during the summer of 2008. I was moving away from home to my university’s dorms and wanted to document my experience during this new chapter in my life. I also wanted a platform where I could express my thoughts and feelings on different matters. My first blog lived for around a year before Architecture took its toll on me and I began to slack on my blogging duties. The fact that one of my professors stumbled across my blog after googling his name and decided to share it with the class didn’t help much either. Blog #1 died soon after.
The idea behind my second blog came to mind a few years later alongside a new and renowned passion for photography. Adamant to show off the photos I was taking on a regular basis, I was determined to bring this blog to life. Being the extremely picky person that I am, I spent a couple of painstaking days choosing the platform (I ended up deciding on Tumblr), the theme, the header and the widgets as well as writing up the first post (which itself took a few hours for me to complete). Yet with those done, the blog was officially born and I was a proud parent…well at least for a couple of weeks. The lack of viewers and comments eventually demotivated me, and my time for shooting dwindled. I bid farewell to Blog #2 on March 24th, 2011.
When 2famous.tv approached me around a year ago and requested if I would be one of the bloggers on their website, I was over the moon. I had one more chance to give this blogging thing a shot and the best part was I didn’t have to face most of the obstacles I did the first two times around. The website was already up and running, I loved the look of it and their views were skyrocketing. All I had to do was write..easy! Or so I thought until a month or two later when I self-diagnosed myself with blogger’s block. Suddenly, coming up with topics and putting together posts became more of a torturous chore than a passion-filled experience and words that once flowed like rivers suddenly fell like drops out of a dripping tap. It was then that I realized and decided that blogging just wasn’t for me.
Needless to say, I do know somewhat where and how I went wrong, and so I offer the following as personal advice: know exactly what you are going to write about or at least define your interests. Also, if you can, prepare the topics of your blog posts in advance and have a brief mental outline for them ready so you don’t waste too much time when you sit down to write. Lastly, blogging isn’t for everyone, so just give it a shot (or a few), and if it doesn’t work out, there’s no shame in joining our ranks 