Begin again ! š±

Good morning!
Today we are gonna go with my third and final Bookending Spring post for this year!! I had actually wanted to sprawn my review of Geekerella today⦠but Iām still not far enough to think iād accomplish finishing reading that today šĀ (taking in consideration that iām writing this the day before publishing!)
So the topic weāll be doing today is one from Isabelle @ Nine Tale Vixen (Hosting from de 13-15th), for April 15th āĀ theĀ prompt post,Ā her postĀ ;
Begin Again
If you were to restart your blog/bookstagram/other media account knowing what you know now, what (if anything) would you change? What tips would you give to newbie bloggers?
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I really thought Iād posted something similar of that at some point⦠but apparently I didnāt, atleast I didnāt found any, so here we go! I did, however, published some tips for new bloggers; but thoses were made within my first year of blogging šĀ So knowing itās now my third year on this blog, they sure as hell might need to be updated anyway.
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āĀ Donāt make it an impulse action, think about it;Ā Iām a person of impulsivity.. Thatās how I did my piercings and most of my tattoos too ā Thatās how Iāve always rolled. However, changing my plateform from Tumblr to WordPress wouldāve required more thoughts from my part. The writting method on each of thoses are quite different; the tumblr allow so much more ālaid-backā blogging, while on wordpress you are kind of needed to write more, and do a blog all of yourself and not.. just of reblogs if you know what I mean.
āĀ Explore out of your niche, and you donāt need to pick just one;Ā One of the best thing I ever did on my blog was to branch out to not only book related stuff, but also other things that Iām passionated about ā like gaming, blogging, bullet journaling! It allowed me to post about so much more things without feeling too too guilty about them, and oh boy does it release the tentions of āidk what to postā.. as you have a whole new world to choose from now, you arenāt restricted to anything. If you wanna post something absolutely off-topic, do it! itās youāre blog, and you are more than allowed to; you donāt need anyoneās permission.
ā Careful who you bring along!! Keep this your space;Ā For thoses of you who remember me brigning my boyfriend at the time to blog with me in here⦠To be fair I did thought he was gonna be the one āsilly me!-Ā and kind of wanted to have this hobby together? Yeah. this wasnāt such a great idea. šĀ when we broke up, it was another work to delete all of the things he did on MY blog; and to be honest, it needed me a while to have this feel like completely my space again. Getting to realize that YES. you can post additional posts on days that arenāt Sunday, Monday and Thursday again.
ā Dont lose sight of yourself;Ā Your blogging voice do matter, because it makes you shine through your blogās writing.. and thatās what makes your blog unique. Thatās why people like to read YOU and not just any other blog.Ā We all wanna sounds like professionals when we start.. but we arenāt! (Iām not, anyway.. ahah) If what you write isnāt you, itās garbage! you might pull it off for a time, but eventually you will just hate the whole thing you created for this reason⦠feeling the need to start completely over. Overshare if you want to, and put way too many emojis without any apologies! *aherm* š
āĀ Itās okay for your blog to change;Ā We, as humans, will all change as we grow ā the same will happen with your blog. and thatās okay!! The blog is growing through you, so if along the way you feel like you need to expend, change the graphics/colors,etc.. donāt feel bad for it, thatās normal! Apart of my expansion of topics, my blogās color and featured images changed more than once. As well as my Categories settings ā some changes require more work than others, though.
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And this is all that I can think of for now! Feel free to hover on my older tips aswell, as frankly.. I re-read them and they still kinda stand šĀ Whatās also really interesting about this type of things, is that every bloggers will have had a different path; so we wonāt always gives the same advices or POVs.
What would you do differently if you started over?Ā
If I started my blog over, I would do two things different; invest in a premium theme for wordpress and been more active on social media. Both of those made a huge different.
I donāt know for the first one, as mine always were free ones; but the second absolutely!
Those are some top-notch advices!! We all try to sound professional to get people to read our posts but being ourselves is enough!
Thank you !
Not to mention how hard it is to sound professional if you are a second language’s blogger like me xD
“One of the best thing I ever did on my blog was to branch out to not only book related stuff, but also other things that Iām passionated about.” SAME. I still post mostly bookish content but it is so much less stressful when I have other options now that I’m more of an entertainment blog (but primarily books). I think if I kept that in mind years ago when getting rid of my gaming blog I would’ve kept it… Even though those posts would definitely be deleted by now.
I definitely remember when your ex was blogging on here! But yeah, I agree, definitely be careful who you bring along (I won’t ever complain or regret about bringing Lupe into my blog space though, but I don’t think I’d bring a partner along).
I agree with the blog changing too… especially as someone who basically “grew up” blogging. There have definitely been some MAJOR changes, thankfully most of them for the better. I think I’d be a lot more active in the community though – I was super reserved (still am), so I never commented on blogs and I honestly have regrets?
I think I probably would’ve started bookstagram sooner rather than later though… but that’s a little hard to say.
I still donāt have a bookstagram 𤣠I had struggled so much for pictures and all.. itās just a no-go for me.
Yeah- I feel like a partner is a LOT different than friends or family? I guess you can drift apart thoses too but like.. My bestfriend and I have been by each otherās side for more than 10years!! So a year with one partner is not quite « thereĀ Ā»; it also breaks differently where you donāt really go back to friends, most time hating the other one or etc. So that becomes harder if both wanna keep doing it (which of course is different if married! You canāt really just walk out then).
Happy to hear you agree with thoses too š