Hello my people !
How are you on this pretty sunday ? it’s been a while since i’ve made a conversation post, eh ? Well ~ last friday the 13th, our precious Evelina’s @ avalinahsbooks has made a discussion post about her fears as a book blogger.
I may not be an expert, of course, but I thought it would be great to share our personnal blogging fears today ! I’m sure we all have some, and sharing things like that is quite a relief in itself, BUT seeing how other bloggers also have the same fears can remove a weight on our shoulder aswell; no matter how big or small our blog is, we surely all have relatively the same ones!
How you may join, you say ?
Well, start by reading mine & precious Evelina’s post, and then you can either comment it on whichever one you like, or even do your own post about it ! ((please please ping us by linking both our posts so we can see it!)
Okay, somehow I always had too many time on my hands .. don’t ask me HOW I even do that .. ;-; it was the case all in high school, in college, and even when I was working full time as an accountant .. idk okay xD so that’s not an issue of mine here, however do you know what is ?
☁ If you’ve been here long enough, you’d know my blog has kind of.. stopped for a week or two earlier this year; I got back with the help of my lovely blogging friends !! But whenever my depression get itself on me again and it just .. seems like writing posts or even bloghop and give some love in our community is too much, I truly fear I end up letting it go again.. I fear that somehow, I stop loving what I do, you know ? Which, let’s say it, is a side effect of depression; you just .. don’t enjoy the thing you used to anymore.
☁ Kind of related to the first one, I also fear of just .. stop getting ideas for posts. Frankly, I’d doubt it’d really happen because with all the tags or the memes in our community along with things like “top 5s, underrated books” and such .. along with lists of blogpost ideas we have around here, minus our own even, there’s a lot !! However … even if I have a few on my own I have written, sometimes I look at them and im like eeeerh …. I don’t feel like writting that one. I don’t know what I wanna say about that, feel me ?
☁ Even if I know there’s not much chances here, unless I quit all my bookish discord, twitter and tumblr or something why would I do THAT?! I just fear my voice stop to matter someday.. that, i dont know, my posts really end up sucking and nobody come and read them anymore. That my people stop talking and stop even wanting to talk to me .. ((This one is dragging since high school.. as silly as it may sound, I still hasn’t been able to shake it off yet.. my name is still associate with a “eeww” feeling in my brain .. 😪 ))
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What are your blogging fears ?
i defintely relate to a lot of this,
i worry so much that no one cares what i have too say and that no one remembers me.
i still feel v insignificant most days
Oh no.. You shouldn’t !! with all you do you are one of the people I look up to the most, I love you very much ❤
I can relate so much.. I can feel the fear when my blogposts get 0 comments… I still can see that people visit my blog, so they probably do read my posts and authors keep asking for reviews so I’m probably doing something good, but oh the fear… Very relatable post, thanks!
yes !! some days I even have low views, barely a handful, even with the sunday post permanently added. Thoses really stresses me out !! Sure when I don’t have comments aswell but, atleast people has came you know ?
That last part is very relatable, especially because I’ve started feeling like I don’t really fit in book blogging community or anything else and I just can’t manage posting that often either so I just kinda don’t exist lol.
aww … well you don’t need to be only one thing, if you don’t read much anymore and find something you wanna talk about, do it !
This is yours, you can write watever you want xx
All of your fears are valid, honestly I fear these constantly, running out of ideas, not being relevant enough, for people to just forget me or not care or worse of it all, to completely give up on blogging or / and end up hating it, while I love it so much right now. Please know that you are a great blogger and you deserve your place in the community, you’re doing GREAT and…if you ever feel this way, I’m always here to chat. Your feelings are valid, but you’re doing amazing <3 xx
awww omg thank you so much ❤❤ Of course i’m always here if you wanna talk aswell, you’re one of my favorite xx
I think as long as i read, I’ll always have reviews to write.
I don’t come up with many original stuff tho. That might be something to work on for me…
i think you will always find people to care about stuff you have to say 🤗
That quite a reassuring thought … however I fear of no longer reading aswell .. ahahah i’m a paranoid x)
Well, i guess you can always write about other stuff you do!
Might even find new people to talk to about new hobbies and such 🙂
Running out of ideas is not my fear so far as I have a big imagination. My biggest fear would be not be interesting anymore to anyone in fact… Or hurting other’s feelings without meaning to do it!
ah yes, that aswell !
specially as I blog in a second language … this fear can get the best of me.
my biggest fear is people will stop visiting my blog. It’s hard to see your visits to your blog just go from a high number to “0” and you’re left wondering if you got bad breath or something…
Yeps.. totally, opposing to if views are high but no comment, sure it makes me sad but atleast I know some people came ..
I can relate about the school memories. It was similar for me…
And I can also relate about ‘not liking it anymore’ – despite it being something we can control (for example, I can make a decision of whether I stop or continue blogging), but you cannot control wanting to, or loving what you do. So it’s kind of like thinking “what if I fall out of love with…” – like a person. Because blogging is so much to us, it’s scary to think of that…
But I think this will never happen 🙂 if you stay in the group, there will always be someone to chat to and to keep your interest going. And to not be alone as well 🙂
Thanks for sharing this post! I am glad my idea stirred up a response. I hope someone else posts one as well 🙂
you’re right ! if the group helped me pick my blog up again in the beginning – they certainly will again ! I haven’t thought about that in that way.
I don’t know if it’s a fear but I’ve sort of drifted from reading the new shiny books and you just get less views for reviews of older books and that’s a bummer because you wan to spread the love for older titles too.
But…I have to be happy reading/blogging or it’s not worth doing for me.
Karen @ For What It’s Worth
well .. I don’t review many just published books either, considering I only started this year, I reviewed 3 only on here. versus atleast 5 “older” ones ..
I think reviews in general just get less views.. as maybe they wanna be surprised or not run to spoilers, etc.