Do I enjoy blogging? I honestly don’t know yet. I started blogging only about a month or so ago and I will be honest, I have not made myself get in that routine yet. Boy do I need some advice there…
I often wonder what to write. Sometimes I sit down and write this endless blog and delete it because I realize I’ve rambled or I think, “Seriously, who is going to read that.” Then that opens up the whole can of well how do I know if anyone is reading. Am I writing to nobody. But blogging is sometimes just meant for you to write correct?
Now that I’m a SAHM blogging has my attention. I want to do it, I like to do it, but I can’t get into it completely! I want to buy a domain but what if I don’t motivate myself and my blog gets neglected, what a waste of money right? Then I battle the name of my blog. If I make a domain what do I call it?
Is it just me? Am I the only one? Yes I see the internship and that would be awesome but hello!! SAHM! We just gave up my income after my second son was born so right now is so not the time to spend money! HELP?
I think that everyone struggles with questions like this. It is hard to be sure you are doing the right thing and a little scary to make that final decision to just jump in with both feet and do it. There are days when I have an hour free to write and wonder what I got myself into with working from home instead of having a 9-5 jobs. Mostly, though, there are days where I love what I do and am glad I took the plunge.
No, you're definitely not alone. The whole blogging thing can quickly become overwhelming.
I have two blogs right now and one has been neglected for a couple of months (I'm working on correcting that). When I begin to feel overwhelmed, I end up doing nothing at all. It helps me to break everything down into small tasks/goals so that I get that accomplished feeling when I actually mark something off my list. Even if you start by doing only one small thing a day like brainstorming topics for the week, creating a blog roll, or commenting on x blogs for the day, etc., it's a start in the right direction.:)
I also have the rambled blog post syndrom…but I don't delete it, if I find it has went in multiple directions I save it as a draft to pick a part later on. You can get a few posts out of one of those…SERIOUSLY.
When I came back online late 06 I did not have money to invest but I so wanted to blog, so I did the sub-domained free blog. Blogger and WordPress both have them and while your finding you blogging feet, this could be a cost effective way to go, then you can think about investing some money if you find this is really for you.
I sometimes will find myself rambling with ideas and start typing only to later save my post as a draft and edit it later. Turns out I can sometimes get 3 posts from just sitiing down and and starting to write. I really like the calendar plug-in option as I can see where I need to post and how often to keep myself on track.