Before blogging was a big deal at all I loved doing it. So what happened? Social media happened….and everyone and their mom were trying to make it in the blogging world.
Blogging seemed to be more about self promotion and using your social media platforms to elevate your posts. Suddenly blogging become something different to me and to be honest I didn’t want to be “just another person starting a blog.” The possibility of turning my thoughts and feelings into a career and the pressure that came with that were suddenly evident to me. And so I would never complete anything. Nothing was ever good enough.
Perhaps there are people out there that find it natural promoting their blogs and themselves, I am not one of those people.*Disclaimer* I don’t think there is anything wrong with self promotion, its just an area I am not comfortable with. How would I ever know my true intentions? What if writing stopped feeling natural and started to feel forced? I started to care way too much about the stats of my posts everyday seeing how many people were reading and I hated that suddenly I cared about these things. I hated that my ideas felt suddenly influenced by everyone else out there and my posts were more about the consumer than what I actually wanted to write or share about.
My own personal intentions for writing and sharing started to became blurry as you can tell.
Similarly to this, I used to love making videos just for the heck of it, but now since youtube has taken the world and again the pressures and possibilities surrounding that world I started to care what people would think, how good my videos were. It sucked the fun out of the process.
I have no idea if there are more people out there that have this struggle, they want to do things, but feel frozen in similar semantics. Please I would love to hear your thoughts and journey.
I’ve decided that what the heck, I’m going to start writing again because I enjoy it, it fulfills me and I enjoy sharing my thoughts and its as simple as that. I’m going to desperately try to drown out any other idea that gets in the way.
I’ve decided that for now to lesson the pressure, I won’t be using my social media platforms to elevate my blog until I can come to a place that I feel comfortable with it. #youdoyouright?
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Lizzie
How About Lizzie 
I truly connect with your post. The “blogging world” has become saturated over time and everyone and their mom is trying to blog (Which is fine). But to me it’s more about sharing my light with others rather than thinking of this as just blogging. I’ve had my site for over 5 years and it’s my little place where I can come in and enlighten others, but I do it because I love to write. Regardless if people read my work or not it’s the one place I can write my little heart out.
I look forward to reading more about your journey!
Daniel,
Thank you so much for your comment and reading my post. I love how you’ve created a “place where you can enlighten others” freely. I think its such a good mindset to not care if people read your post or not, you are writing for you! It did feel so freeing to just post something and not care about having to share it anywhere. 🙂 I think I’ll continue this way for a while.
Have a great day!
Liz
No problem. I think as a writer it’s important that we give each other feedback as well because it’s the only way we can grow not only as writers but as human beings as well. If you would ever like to write a guest post for my site feel free to email me at dquil87@gmail.com Maybe we can find a way to incorporate your ideas with my site!