Heyos People,
To start with, I have finally decided to post at least once every week if not more frequently (some discipline will do me good). That thing out, I’ll now continue with my rants adding to my previous post from last week ‘That Glow of Having a New Crush’
So, like in the beginning of any new relationship, I have thought of little else over the weekend but the blogging and the topics that I can make my niche from.
Little else included:
- Playing with my kid
- Trying and failing to get my kid to eat and sleep properly
- Trying and failing to sleep without him anyway
- Entertaining and hosting a re-union with my school friend (she has a kid of the same age as mine). 2 kids make things more difficult and we ended up spending the entire time in different rooms with our respective kids
- Shopping with my husband (Who doesn’t have time for shopping?!)
- Going out for a party with cousins (Same goes with partying. who doesn’t have time?!)
- Trying and failing to put my kid to sleep again! – Finally dozed off at 5:30 am and woke up with a start at 8:30 to rush for my day job.
While doing all of these ‘little else’ stuff, I was continuously coming back to my blog. My thoughts were inadvertently revolving around What I can do to be at a happy place with my blogging. I was checking with everything I did, if this thing can give me a potential topic to write (boy, was that stressful?!). I admit I’m guilty of not taking out time for proper brainstorming session.
Yet, I strongly feel that the topic I can talk on for hours happily if no one stops me is – my love for books and book reading – How it made my life much more beautiful and awesome, how I feel it’s the best thing to do ever, how it…(See? I’m already unstoppable at it 😛 ) This is the one answer that comes back to me every single time I ask myself “what would I do without getting bored if I get loads of free time”. So, I think I’ll take up a book reading challenge soon and post my reviews in this blog.
Anyway, coming back to the analogy I’m drawing between my blogging and being in a new relationship: New relations are demanding. They ask for your time, lots of it. Or maybe, it’s the other way round – you crave for that time. You don’t know how to strike up a conversation with your crush that will make you look cool – what to post. You don’t know what could send your crush away without coming back to you ever again – what is the take away you are giving your audience: is it good enough for their time. You are not sure if you are overdoing something or under doing it – How frequently to post stuff – for your audience to remember you are still in the scene but not boring them with too much junk.
One thing I’m realizing with all these thoughts in my head is, you should be yourself. You should be happy doing it. Not taking too much stress about what can go wrong is the key. If you are worrying a little too much or you are being extra cautious or conscious, you can be sure to eventually bore your crush off by being too artificial or structured.
The initial part is always difficult – approaching your crush/starting a blog. It’s OK to be not sure. That’s what makes the interaction cute and interesting (read fresh).
So maybe I’ll do the same thing with my blog too! I’ll put up random posts, some hopefully good ones and many terrible ones – but I’ll do it anyway. Hopefully, after some embarrassing encounters, I’ll be able to establish a meaningful and long-lasting relationship with this fling.
This post is dedicated to all the new bloggers out there, who signed up for blogging as a hobby, or as a vent, or to learn a bit more about themselves, to interact and have fun, or all of it!! Cheers to you guys. Random rantings are also OK at the beginning to get you going (rather than giving up). Go ahead and write away!! 😀
*All this advice is primarily for me.. piling up the courage to write more*
And do write a comment or two about how you liked the post. Happy writing (reading) to you! 🙂
Clueless Journey 