This post was going to be about a random piece of banana fibre I found (see here), but I changed my mind and it’s now about blogging. I’ve seen a lot of these posts lately, and I just want to get my words out there. I’m not sure how this will go, but I guess we’ll see!
(Thinking of selling personalised downloads of this? Comment if you like the idea!)
I sometimes say that blogging really isn’t anything special, and I don’t really understand when people say ‘You’re an inspiration’, but when my parents said to me ‘You don’t really know how much work you put into it [my blog]’, it kind of clicked. On top of doing home work, spending time with my family, and trying to just have me time; I’m on my Twitter, emails, Facebook and Instagram promoting myself, brands and anything random to please you, the readers. I feel like other bloggers try and hide the fact by saying ‘I only do it because I love it’, and some of us do, but at the same time, we’re writing and tweeting because people enjoy it. I know it might sound like that isn’t much to you ‘non-bloggers’, but actually when you add it all up, it really is.
Lily Melrose, or LLYMLRS, wrote a really short and sweet blog post about why you shouldn’t give up blogging, and her thoughts were exactly the same as mine are now. Basically, if you don’t put cake mixture in the oven, you won’t get a cake in the end… or if you don’t put the effort, time and energy in, you won’t get all the fun stuff… I prefer the cake version.. yummm cake! I’m not saying that if you’re not doing ‘well’ (well = your own definition of course), that you’re not putting enough effort in, but it might mean that you haven’t been doing it for that long, or maybe you’re setting your standards too high, or putting too many eggs over flour in your mixture (eggs/flour = different content).
These ingredients can mean whatever you want them to mean personally, so I can’t tell you the perfect quantities (#ImSoGoodAtTheseCakePuns), but when you look at these so-say ‘big bloggers’, you have to understand that they whisked and mixed, and put their cake mixture into the oven to get where they are today. Just because their cake is golden and gooey (…just give me my medal now…), doesn’t mean they didn’t think of giving up.
Your goals are your own. Whether you want blogging to take you to a full time job, or you just want to reach 100 followers within 6 months, it will take time and effort. Set mini goals along the way, and slowly (or quickly, depending on how much time you put in), you will reach them. Hey, one of my goals this year was to do a product collab, and I have done it (see here)!, which means it is possible. A cake takes patience, and so does a blog…
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I’m 14 as well, and you inspired me like your parents have said how you have put so much effort into your blog posts and the way you present them.. I have just created my blog, and you have inspired me to be creative and myself 🙂 x
Aww thank you so much, this is such a lovely comment!
Awh so sweet! What a great post 🙂 http://confessionalprofessionaldramaqueen.blogspot.co.uk/
Thanks Laura, glad you liked it! x
I love you :””'( wwwwwaaaahhhh. Thanks for the advice Tolly. #proud
Why the sad face? Hehe, no problemo. Forget you might actually need this now you’re a blogger too hehe 😉 x
The sad face, I miss you. It’s just good advice for any creative projects really 🙂 xx
Aww, sad face here too! Well, that is true indeed….
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I agree with this, I have just read Lily Melrose’s post this morning and thought it was amazing. I don’t even want to think of the amount of time I spend writing post, tweeting and searching for inspiration. I love blogging but it does take up a lot of my spare time!
By the way I think those illustration are great 🙂
Rebecca x
http://missbeccabeauty.blogspot.co.uk/
Exactly! Like I mentioned I never really realised how much it does take, but it’s worth it in the end.
Glad you do! Would you buy a personalised one if it was like £4.50/£5.00?
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