Should I Quit My Blog?

Today is the last day of January and as I spontaneously decided I would try blogging for the the whole month while in a January 1st hangover (I don’t know why lol), I thought I would look back at how it went and see if it’s something I want to carry on with.

I’ll admit that it has been difficult, I made no rules at the beginning of this process but kind of made a few loose rules as I went along, I decided to just upload on weekdays as it got to my first weekend and plans just took over, plus as I have been writing and uploading on the day that I upload most days, commuting on the train has its perks in that I have time to sit down and write. Some days have been more difficult than others to write, but most days I’m surprising myself on how much I have to say. I wasn’t able to blog every weekday as sometimes I just wasn’t in the mood, and would rather watch a YouTube video or read on the train, telling myself I’d write up a blog later, and then plans or other things would get in the way. So Iv learnt that I need to be slightly more organised and write on my journey in to work when my mind is fresh and focused, (although tired). I thought I might want to get some blog posts written up in advance and while I like this idea as it means I have more time and light to shoot photos and make it pretty etc, I know I may end up spending way more time than I can afford on it, I also love writing about how I feel that day in the moment as ideas flow more naturally. When I first started my blog a few years ago (click back to see the mess!) I would write things up and when I went back to it I felt it was complete rubbish, as the moment had passed. But I have a few ideas that I would like to sprinkle in amongst the impromptu posts so I’ll see if a mix of both works out.

Blogging five days a week

I wouldn’t say that I did this very well as I have been making YouTube videos alongside the blog and using them as my post on Mondays so it’s sort of a cheat, I also missed a few of Fridays posts purely because I was exhausted at the end of the weeks. I want to make time at the weekends to shoot more photos for my blog as the days in winter are short and I run out of natural light by the time I get home.

Will I carry on? Yes! There weren’t many downsides to blogging for me and on the most part I have enjoyed the creative challenge, making time to be creative each day has made me feel so much more inspired and full of ideas to fill my blog up this year. I’m so glad I just went for it, my attitude was ‘done is better than perfect’ and I have started to let people know that I am blogging too which has been a massive outer comfort zone step for me! Moving forward I would like to start to try improving by taking it a little more seriously, taking more pictures, creating better and more interesting and varied content, although I’m still figuring out what kind of content I enjoy writing about. I also don't think I will be posting as regularly as 5 times a week until I can get to a high level of content, but I have lots of ideas so 3 times a week should be doable for me at the moment. Most of all though, I want to continue enjoying it. So here’s to blogging in 2018! I hope you enjoy the journey as much as I intend to.