Tuesday, November 2

Down and Dirty

Okay people, it’s time to cross a line.
  
And by that I mean it’s time to get personal.    Now please do not get me wrong ~ I do not want to spill my guts about how so-and-so is doing the perfect job of ruffling my fur or how living in a large household of seven is somewhat daunting; rather I mean it’s time I talked about some of the things that have been going on in my life.

Warning:  for those that have a strong aversions to reading a stranger’s thoughts, please pass by and we’ll all be happy. 

Let’s start with the “why”….  

You may be asking any of the following:

~  why has she suddenly gone mental?

~  why am I even bothering with this?

~  why does everyone seem to succumb to the need to spill their guts on the internet?

~  why is she wasting my time?

~  why is the sky up and not down?* 

*okay, that one only if you have a really short attention span… 

But the plan and simple reason for why I feel compelled to go all personal on y’all is basically this:  I do not know what else to blog about at the moment.

The thing is that I have been trying to keep up with Depict This when I realized that I miss it when I don’t blog.  But the stage of life I am at right now seems to be severely hampering my creative mind and as a result I do not have anything in the usual fields that Depict This touches on to post about.

I have been wondering what other bloggers do when life/writers block strikes and it seems to me that you have three choices as a blogger.

One:  You can keep on forcing yourself to post about your normal topics.  I have heard that having a regular schedule helps with this.

Two:  You can take a break.

Three:  You can blog about the stuff that is relevant to you right now.

Well, I’ve tried the first two methods.  Forcing myself to post ended up in blogger burnout with a five-day update schedule.  Bad idea!

Secondly, I tried the break trick but I missed it too much.  I like writing, even when the things I have to write about are not that inspiring.

So I thought I could try the third option.
 
Now I know you will not want to read a whole bunch of “Gee, I really do not know what to write today" posts because I hate it when that’s all you get for a month from on one of your favourite blogs.  And I do think that a schedule would be a good idea.   How do Tuesday and Thursday updates sound?   And I think I will try to throw in a little som’thin som’thin on Saturdays too. 

But would you mind if the topics are not just about vintage, clothes and crafty art stuff?   If I mixed it up say, with stories about my husky Amabelle.  Would that be interesting?

Or stories about ginger bread house making?  Or the clean floor challenges?  Or desperate dying disasters ~ hair dye that is!!

I know I have briefly touched on personal topics before, such as where DH and I are off too, or trying to buy a house {still in the middle of that one folks!}

But as a lifestyle type blog, I wonder whether topics about my life in particular, not just life in general, are permissible.  

What do you think about mixing general and personal?

xox,
bonita

2 comments:

  1. I think it's great to add personal posts to a lifestyle blog. It gives your readers a more rounded view of who you are and what you do when you're not blogging. Personally, I like to read blogs where I know that there'll be the occasional (or even regular) personal post.

    It sounds as though it would make you happy to start adding that sort of stuff so I say Go for it.

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  2. Katie, thank you so much for your support. I really appreciate it. ^__^

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Thank you for visiting my blog ~ I love to read your comments, opinions and queries! I will try to answer all of your comments, or stop by your blog for a visit! : )

xox,
b.

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