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2 QUESTIONS TO ASK BEFORE STARTING A BLOG

ByGnomeAngel

2. What am I going to blog about?

Are you going to be the next Martha Stewart? Are you going to cut your soul open and bare all? What are you going to share with the world?

Again, for most people this is an evolution. When I first started I had dreams of being the next Decor8. I wrote post after post about design trends, highlighted my favourite designer items and dreamed of being the next big thing in the design world.

Here’s the problem, it wasn’t my passion. Sure I could lose hours scrolling through pinterest worthy interiors and I have a collection of interior design magazines that I cherish – but it’s not what gets me out of bed each day so it wasn’t sustainable.

For a number of years I wrote about our journey with IVF. It was a great outlet and I’ve made some of the strongest connections and friendships with people who came to read those posts. Writing about that journey really saved my sanity while we were going through it. I cherish those posts and I hope to one day share them with our son.

However, when he was born something changed with me. I no longer wanted all of those personal posts to be out there floating around in cyberspace. I didn’t want to share images of our child with the internet. I made a personal decision, based on our family’s circumstances and what was best for us, and I stopped writing and sharing images about our son. Sure, I’ll mention him in my writing and sharing but the internet will no longer have the level of access they once did.

It was at this time that I found it really hard to sustain the blog and I took 6 months off. I tried a number of different things to fill the gap that blogging had left but nothing really stuck. I missed it.

It was then that I decided to write about my journey with quilting. It was a fabulous decision and has taken my love of blogging to a whole new level.

The point is you need to think about what you’ll write about. What do you love? What will you share and what will you keep private?

The great thing is, whatever you decide now you can always come back and change it, modify, adapt – but you need a place to start so; “What are you going to write about?”

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  2. Great tips Angie. It is always important to ask why you want to start a blog. I had a friend come up to me and say she was going to start a blog so she could get hosted invites. I remember telling her if that was her reason she wasn’t going to succeed. She went ahead and opened a blog, wrote one post and gave up because she found it hard… I guess if you truly love something, and do it full heartedly, opportunity eventually follows. But to create a blog solely to gain something but not want to work for it, is never a good start.

    1. Thanks Rose. I agree – it’s a lot of hard work (with little monetary reward) to be putting in on something you don’t truly love. But I think that’s like anything with life you’ll succeed where your passion and drive combine. I’m really excited to see where the next chapter of all this goes and I’m so happy that you’re on the journey too! 🙂

    1. Any time 🙂 If there’s anything in particular you’d like help with, questions you’d like answered or just want to know more about something just leave me a comment or send me an email via my contact page and I’ll do my best to help. 🙂

    1. It’s funny how the evolution happens. I think most bloggers do it – start with one thing and end up somewhere else completely. Will be interesting to see where we’re at in another 5 years. 🙂

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