Blogging with anxiety; was it worth posting ??
Good morning,
I have another post of my serie where I share my struggles of blogging with anxiety- this one might’ve look alot like «Not a good enough post», but this one being more on the after of having publishing it.
My other “Blogging with Anxiety” posts; Feeling we’re not enough // Content Wise // Stats // Posts Paranoïa // Have I posted this before? // Can I Say that? // Missing A Post // Tags // Not a “good enough” post
Most bloggers would agree that quality wise is better than quantity wise in regards of posting — although I do agree too, I tend to REALLY wanna do all my posts if I can help it, instead of skipping somes.
In one part, this is when i’d do fun things like tags and memes — which can get some tractions, and still rather “less effort” in term of ideas. That’s rather fine.. even if it doesn’t get as much attention – I can sort of understand because of the nature of the posts itself.
But in another part — when it’s something you actually wanna talk about, maybe for a long time, and it gets no love at all… that’s kinda dissapointing. I’m thinking about my videogame talks & the book recs lists that I have made; as of which the second took ofcourse way more time to build.
My anxiety then chime in at wondering if writing a post receiving no attention is better than no posts at all, in the end? Is the effort taken to write it is worth it? 🤔
We say that it’s always better to write posts with your heart, as it’s what shows through the post– and honestly, as i’m a tumblr user, I most often don’t mind speaking to the void at all! There’s just specific things that i’d appreciate the void to answer back sometimes- atleast a little squeak xd
Again, like most of all thing being “consumed” by anxiety.. the problem stand that we fear of being something that doesn’t matter – and the thing with blogging is that we all wanna be rather popular. Atleast have more comments, and views, and likes!!
It definately not only work in this sense though; it also had happened that I had published something that I wasn’t too too sure about it.. and it ended up being really loved and interacted with!
What do you think;
is the desire to write the post going above the small return it gives you?
I think you blog for you and not worry about the rest. If you feel good and enjoy what you do, the rest will come.
Thank you! Xx
I sure try my best to care less about that!
I’ve been blogging for 15 years and I too have anxiety. I don’t try to people please, I just write about what I like and hope that others like it too. I do know that once I started following other blogs, leaving comments and visiting them often, they returned the favor and that’s how most blogs get more traffic and views.
Wow 15years, that’s impressive!
Yes— that I know I kinda put the blogging hop more on the side, so it has certainly a little part in it, that’s right.
I do try my best to let it go and just follow my wants and try to care less, but it is hard 😅