I’ve wondered a long time what to do with this blog. I post to several blogs, and several others that met an untimely death. This blog has been my ‘original’ blog (I’ve changed platforms several times – I started with diaryland in 2001, moved on to blogger, and finally landed here on WordPress). This blog has been my diary for a while.
But then we started a family blog, and I post many of my thoughts over there, except with pictures. That makes this blog somewhat obsolete. I thought about making this my ‘craft’ blog of sorts, and although I do a fair bit of crafting, I doubt it’s enough to keep readers interested. Maybe. It’s still a possibility.
I used to think of this blog as the place where I could be more ‘me.’ My family blog is somewhat generic, because we have such a wide array of readers. On this blog, I shared my real thoughts because I was anonymous. That has changed. Over time, friends and family members have found this blog. That’s not a bad thing, but it does change the scope of the blog somewhat. You know what I mean – you write differently when you know you have a certain audience.
Here are some of the other blogs I used to post on, and their current status, if you care:
- Lost blog – I used to post on a blog all about the TV show Lost. I enjoyed it, but the person who paid me to blog also paid 50 other TV show bloggers. They didn’t market the blogs well, and the company went under, taking the Lost blog with them.
- Craft tutorials – It’s a long story I don’t want to rehash. Needless to say, I don’t currently post there.
- Evolving Blueprint – I still want to keep this blog going, but ever since I had Rhys, I let that blog fall by the wayside. I plan to revamp it and return to posting there.
- Writing blog – This is another of my blogs that was a good idea but got set aside once the baby was born. I ought to keep it going also.
- Life with Baby – I just started this blog. I know. Like I need yet another blog. But this one lets me say anything I want to about having a baby. Plus they pay me a little bit to do it.
And that brings me back to this blog. I want to keep it. It has been with me for a long time; I’m not sure I could give it up. But what should the focus of this blog be? Crafting? Creative writing? Odds and ends? Something else? I’m just not sure.
If I still have any readers, what are your thoughts? Help me figure out what to do with this blog.
Well, I haven’t been aware of this blog for too long, but I would hate to see you let it go. I love the name Littlest Bird. It totally reminds me of you. You are the littles bird in our family, you know. Just keep putting random thoughts on here until you decide what to do with it. I really don’t have any good ideas………
I definitely don’t think you should give up this blog. I would love to see lots of different things on this blog…crafts, food, your personal thoughts, your writing endeavors, book reviews, more frugal parenting…just all about you, I guess. What you personally are up to, when you don’t feel like it’s “news” enough to put on your family blog.
I like the idea of talking about babies. I could talk about that and parenting all day long. It’s every waking thought I have, pretty much.
So, where in the heck do you go to get paid to blog? I would love to know of any resources I could look into. I can’t work outside the home right now but I would like to work from home. If you don’t care to share anything you know I would really appreciate it.