Do you ever feel like you’re writing, but no one is really reading what you have to say?
The reason I fell in love with blogging is that I felt that finally, people wanting to read what I had to say, yet lately I feel like I’m missing that.
For the past few months, I’ve felt really unmotivated to blog. I love blogging and I want to enjoy it, yet recently I’ve felt like I don’t anymore, and that it feels like a bit of a chore. That I don’t really feel like taking photos, and when I do I don’t like how they turn out. When it comes to writing the post I feel like the words don’t even come.
It has been really getting me down, and I just had to keep telling myself – ‘once exams are over and you don’t feel like you should be revising instead, it will be fine!‘, ‘once you get back from your holiday and have lots of new content to post, it will be fine!‘. But now I have loads of time, loads of new beauty products to write about and yet still, no motivation.
I started to try and work out exactly why I feel this way towards blogging, because it’s a strange feeling – I want to enjoy it, but I’m not. It was then that I worked out I’m feeling a lack of motivation because I feel like I’m getting nowhere with my posts. I don’t feel like they’re getting noticed, or getting any recognition, and instead, it’s like I’m shouting into a void where no one is listening.
I realised that this is probably partly my own fault. I don’t read blogs like I used to, comment like I used to – I promised myself at the start of this year I was going to comment on blogs a lot more but this just seems to have gone in the opposite direction. But when I open Bloglovin’ to posts that aren’t even topics that interest me, have to sift through a million and one tweets about love island to find out about new blog posts on Twitter and Instagram is being… well Instagram, it can be difficult to even find out my favourite bloggers have new posts up.
Which is probably why I’m feeling like I have less of a readership too, and lost in the community. A couple of years ago, blogging had such a community feeling. I had a much smaller following number (I don’t even think I’d hit a thousand yet on Twitter), but I felt like everyone was out to support each other. There was so much love for each other’s post shared, and I miss that. I want to somehow start that again, I don’t know exactly how – perhaps with a chat that somehow won’t become inactive after two days, or a hashtag everyone can share their new posts on. I started using the #bloggershare suggested by Lauren Ann to try and beat the Instagram Algorithm and I’m discovering so many amazing new posts through that.
A blogging refresh is also something I’m attempting to do as well, because it seems everyone is always excited by something new. I’ve decided to change the way I edit photos to see if I enjoy taking them more, change up the style of posts I write a bit and possibly even change the look of my blog a bit – watch this space…
