I’ve noticed that a number of the authors of some of the great blogs that I read have posted their New Year’s resolutions and big plans for revamping their blogs and blog designs. I’ll be the first to admit I don’t have a problem at all with blog design changes. If you read here often enough, you’ve probably lost count of how many times I did that myself this past year. Ahem.
While I certainly think having goals for your blog is definitely ok AND improving upon your blog is definitely super, I just hope that you won’t change your writing style. I so often see bloggers aiming to write like several well-known bloggers and I think it’s a shame that they don’t realize that emulating others is a sure-fire way to kill your readers’ interest in your blog. If we all wrote the same, what fun would that be? What would be the point of even bothering to blog?
Each and every blog in my feed reader is there for a reason and the reason is that I am genuinely interested in what those bloggers have to say. I’ve come to know so many of them through their stories…what interests them, their families, their triumphs and struggles. Their words have made me laugh until my sides hurt and cry because of their touching nature. I’ve been entertained and informed. No two stories are the same and that’s exactly what I love. It’s not their blog rank, blog design, or “who they know”. It’s their voice…their words.
The blogosphere is a big, big place and I know for sure that there is room for everyone. Nobody can tell your story better than yourself.
*This has been a Mommy Cracked Blogger PSA. You may now resume your regularly scheduled blogging.
Wow… you said that so well. I have to admit I started blogging 6 months ago and wasn’t sure what I wanted to blog about but I think I have found who I am as a blogger so hopefully I haven’t lost you along the way.
Excellent point! When I first started blogging I would think “I wish I was as funny as so and so or as smart as so and so”. I soon realized that there is no point in it. We all have different talents and niches and there is room for all of us. 🙂
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Thanks for reminding us that each of us has her own voice.
What a great post – I agree. Don’t go changing your ways!
Wow. It’s like you’ve been in my brain reading my thoughts. Today alone I have dropped about 20 blogs from my Reader after having a moment of total and complete annoyance at the number of people who have changed their writing style in what I assume is an attempt at being popular. It’s hard to suffer through text when someone isn’t being their “real self,” y’know?
Happy New Year, and thanks for always being consistent in who you are!
Happy New Year to you and the entire Cracked Family 🙂 No plans for huge changes on my blog, but I may spin off (assuming webmaster hubby finishes what I asked him to do). The rationale with that is so I do not alter anything on my blog too drastically. With that said I am likely going to talk WAY too much about planning our vacation, but I suppose it can be excused since it has been 6 years since we went away.
Merci beaucoup for the PSA 🙂
Well said!!! Since I’m so new to this, I don’t really get the competitiveness that seems to go on out there in the blogosphere. Who cares who has the most followers! I’m just having fun and making friends!
Great points! I am not creative enough to move past the family drama! LOL
I started blogging because you asked me to. Now that I have started I have found it is a great outlet to vent!
when i first started, my secret ambition was to be the next go-to blog. the “it” blog. the one that got all the hits and every company wanted me to showcase their products b/c i had so many readers.
it took awhile, but i finally realized the stupidity of it all. now i just do what i like, what fits me. if i am liked, great. if not, oh well!
i don’t even read/find interest in/think they are over-rated 75% of the “it” blogs out there!
Happy New Year!
Well said!
AMEN!!! I could not have said it better. Happy New Year!
Appreciate the reminder here – so many take the New year to mean that things MUST change, and sometimes things are better left as is.
Great post! I’ve gotten some feedback on my blog, and will be making some minor changes . . . but you’re right! We shouldn’t try to be someone we are not. God created us each with a unique voice, and we should use it!
Thanks for the wise advice!
Happy New Year from Northern Ireland 🙂
Very well said.
I could never try to write like someone else – just too exhausting!
I’ve done a slight blog header makeover – that is, I “took down” my christmas tree from it, and added some other stuff.
Keep being you, and keep keeping it real!
hey! hope you guys had a happy new year ,,,were you around for it?? ours was great until the youngest child fell in the firepit while roasting marshmallows,,,loooon story
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Leigh-ms-fl-NC