A list from the pathetic blogger
February 08, 2016
Top 10 reasons I fall short on the blogger scale...
Disclaimer: please don't take this too seriously. It's more of a joke than anything! But still all true!)
I was a pretty pathetic blogger for the entirety of December and MIA in January (although the time off was a well needed break).
During
that time I compiled a list of reasons I don't fit in the 'typical blogger'
status.
Out on
the internet there is a great number of beautifully made blogs. And I know that
while I am a fairly new blogger and that we're all different I have compiled a
short list of my greatest blogging fails.
#1 I lack
the ability to schedule a post. I'm not talking being unorganised and leaving
my post to the last minute. I'm talking the inability to schedule the post and
LEAVE IT ALONE! I'll have a post scheduled and then spend every 5-10 minutes
worrying about the post and logging back in to check it and change it.
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| Delicious croissant and hot chocolate, well, it was... |
#3 I have
a complete and utter lack of rose gold or copper. I love it, it's beautiful and
yet I have none, zero, zilch.
#4 I
don't understand the marble trend, like, at all. Actually that's I lie. I can
understand marble as a cooktop, marble as a background for a flat lay
photograph but marble shoes? marble bed spreads? Nope, you've lost me. If there
is someone out there who actually can explain the joy of being able to blend in
with a marble column on a day out then please, come and convert me!
#5 I
don't do reviews. Like, at all. I'd love to, really but I can never find enough
words to describe how amazing something is or how much I enjoyed it (or
disliked it for that matter). I read on another blog today that not doing
review is a way of (potentially) better quality post on your blog because there
not the same old, same old. Maybe I'll just have to work on, maybe I'll find
another way.
#6 Self
promotion
I came to
the realisation recently that coming up to February when I was going to start
blogging again I could have been reposting about blogs from 'the vault'. It
dawned on me that self-promotion requires organisational skills that I just don't posses and
#7 What
was it?
If I got
a dollar for every time I forgot that wonderful blog post that popped into my
mind. Well I'd probably still be broke because I wouldn't remember to put in
the dollar. I am too forgetful! Even the times I get to writing the post half
way through I'll look at my screen and ask myself "where was this
going?" And sadly the flow never comes back. The amount of half-finished
post that are floating around is incredible!
#3 oops.
#6 nope. #8?
I can't
count. You'd think that after 13 years of schooling I'd be able to compile a
list that went from 1-10 sadly almost every second d number was wrong (thank
goodness for editing!)
#9 Flat
lay photography. I was quiet proud of myself earlier when I remembered the name
for the typical blogging photography. Then I remembered, I couldn't actually do
it! No matter how hard I try there are odd shadows and even stranger angles.
Photography is something that I am determined to work on but it's taking a lot
of time and the steady realisation that I'm going to need to buy props and
backdrops and WAY more practice!
#10 I
don't have a niche, nor do I really understand it. I'd love to be a fashion
blogger, or a beauty blogger. Heck, I love to be a lifestyle blogger if I knew
what that really meant! When did finding your niche become a) so challenging
and b) so hard?
Can you
just be a natural blogger? Can that be the next big thing?
'Natural
blogging' writing what you like how you like with little conforming. Is that a
niche?
Enough
complaining. I started blogging because I was looking for a next project,
something I could throw everything I had and watch it grow and change. I hope
it will stand as a record (somewhat) of now for the future.
I love
the idea that others will see the things I write and someday (with practice) I
hope to inspire others.
We're all
unique. So I might fall short here and there, but who doesn't!
You don't
always have to jump on the bandwagon to achieve your dreams or become a good
blogger.
So be
unique and be proud!
xx
Caitlin
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