I know it’s a standing joke that most of the time we hardly know when our next post is going to come along let alone imagine blogging in the years ahead but what I am interested in is this: bar any unforeseen circumstances, how long do you hope to blog for?
Note the name of my blog, it suggests that I have a limited time frame before the blog has to shut down. No way! I don’t intend to end this blog after two years because I enjoy writing and interacting with the people on here. Saying that, will there come a time when my posts begin to lack inspiration or purpose? Or will the new experiences I go through lead to newer posts. It would be quite interesting to see a person who has kept a blog right from teenage years to the years of ancient white.
Blogging as a parent. Now that must be a challenge as you are likely to be inundated with work, nappies and your spouse so how on earth do you find the time? Yet, there are many of them on WordPress and their blogs are awesome as they are able to combine the seriousness of adult life with the spontaneity of children. One post can be arguing against the raising of taxes whilst another can be describing how your baby vomited over a stranger on the bus. Fun times. I look forward to it. Not the vomiting of course.
So do I think that in ten years time, I will still be blogging? Sounds slightly scary to think about because it almost suggests I will still be the same person in ten years but I sincerely hope not. I hope I will be much more mature, independent and with a family of my own whilst also still writing on this blog as well as for my job. That would be great right? However there is also a different that needs to be considered. You guys. What if you all went off and left me here typing away to no one. Perhaps there would be new people but what if WordPress began to decline in popularity? I think after interacting with so many people on here, I wouldn’t be able to maintain a blog that no one reads.
How about you? Does your blog have a specific time goal or are you riding the waves of WordPress on a shoreless sea?
Until Next Time
A Worried Student
Sorry are you still a student or you are just worried?
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I hope my blog will be around for as long as I can continue to type, if the only visitor will be me I will still have the obligation to right for my reader.
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Haha both still!
Interesting. My blog began in a similar fashion but it has become more of a platform to interact than a personal blog. Perhaps if I used it as a blog to share my creative writing then I would still continue to post if the visitor numbers dwindled.
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All we need is an audience, I just want to remind you that at the end of the day if nobody is around do not count yourself out.
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That’s true. I will try to remember that.
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All the best!
No worries…:)
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Riding the waves I reckon, I’ll stop when I run out of ideas, and hopefully that wont be anytime soon! 🙂
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Hopefully! I guess if a blog is about life in general then it is pretty difficult to run out of ideas as anything can be transformed into a cool blog post.
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Damn right, although honestly I can’t imagine blogging as a lifelong endeavour somehow…
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Haha yes that is the other side of the coin. I like the idea of blogging for a long long time but then thinking of blogging for that long seems almost..tiring in a way? Especially if there are no results.
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Agreed, yeah, a bit like treading water I suppose. For an art blog there’s sort of a natural progression onto a full website so I guess thats my next step if I can make it there! I suppose if that happens Ill just stop blogging O.O
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Ahah that’s true. I hope you do!
Haha eeek.
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Cheers :), so do I!
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This is really hard to think about. I’d like to say I’ll still blog, but who knows. In time, perhaps I’ll dislike to read, and write fiction. Perhaps I’ll find writing about my life to be stupid and just plain unimportant. I’m not sure. We grow daily, to the point that who we were last year is just as much of a stranger as someone you pass on the street.
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True. We do change drastically as time goes on. Especially if like me, you are still in the teenager years. I am pretty sure I will become at least slightly different as I age!
Hmm if you were to write fiction, you could still use your blog unless it is a big project intended for the Publishers.
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Very true. I’ve always steered away from any drastic change which has hurt me in recent years.
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We all are wary of change. Some are excited by it whilst others dread it.
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I go back and forth with it, and it starts to eat at you when your don’t change but by the time you do and you’ve held back change it attacks you.
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Yeah that happens. We need to reduce our fear of change but at the same time not rush headlong into everything. A tricky balance at times.
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Really interesting points raised, and oh, what a question! How long? Personally, with the onslaught of maths and looming Guh-Cuh-Suh-Eughs…naturally, my blogging will flop, but ooooh that’s a toughie. I’m tempted to say half a year but then meh, I’ll probably keep with it just a bit longer. I know for sure it won’t last into adulthood. But then…
Argh I’ve never thought about this properly before!
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But then..you just don’t feel like letting go. All the hard work and effort put into the blog, it feels wrong to just suddenly and deliberately stop, right?
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I suppose it depends on the person. And the kind of blog they’ve set up maybe?
For me, it wouldn’t.
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Hmm yeah I guess so.
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I have only been blogging this year. I have not given any thought to quitting or time limits. I have much to learn. I find it quite therapeutic.
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So riding the awesome waves of WordPress. Well, calm, gentle and lovely ones.
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I started blogging last year and have no intention of stopping unless the Lord has other plans for me. I’d like to get as much out there before then and I still have lots to say. Keep up the good work!
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Ahah so did I. In fact Word Press tells me that today is my one year anniversary! Seems like a long time ago though yet I still love blogging.
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I chose my blog name when I wasn’t sure where I was going or what I was doing, so all I need to change once I’m out of uni is my tagline. I’ve still got another 3 years left at uni though :S
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I honestly hadn’t thought about how long I intended my blog to last though – it was just a way to get my thoughts out and connect with people anonymously, and I figured that once I got to the point where I wasn’t blogging much anymore, I’d just let it go.
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Hmm yeah as in let it slowly fizzle out right. I thought that was happening to me a few weeks ago but then I suddenly started posting again 😀
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That’s the exact reason I’m figuring I’ll let it fizzle, rather than just shutting it down – that way, if I do decide to post again, it’s all still there.
Another option might be starting a new, post-uni blog, and letting this one stay as a read-only?
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Yeah that’s the better option.
Hmm Naa that’s almost like shutting it down as the connection goes. Maybe changing the name is just simpler.
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Give me one more week and I will have 2 years left of uni! Or maybe three depending on further education…
I guess I can keep my blog’s name for longer then!
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On April 2nd I will celebrate my 10 year blogiversary and I expect that I’ll still be doing it in another ten years. I’m not sure if I’ve changed, but my blog and blogging in general has. If you look at my blog you won’t see 10 years of posts as I’ve changed blog sites twice. Your blog will last as long as you’re enjoying doing it.
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We have a blog veteran in the house!
Hmm so when you changed blog sites, was it difficult building up the same audience again or did you slowly transfer your audience onto the new site beforehand?
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Some followed me and some I lost. I was able to follow old friends through Bloglovin which is an app that let’s you follow blogs from all the different sites.
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Hmmm and your old blogs, did you completely delete them or just left them for memories?
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My first is still there on Blogger, although I deleted some of the posts when I included them in a book. The second site, Posterous, shut down so I imported some of that material to WordPress.
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Ahah and WordPress has proven to be the best, riight? 😛
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Yes it has. Easiest to share and easiest to network with other bloggers
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I don’t have a time frame for my blog for it is where I share my thoughts, experiences, and interests as a creative person. I’ll always have new experiences which will inspire new thoughts and interests, so I’ll always have something new that I want to share. At the end of the day, I’m writing for myself and all I want to do is share my creativity. if no one bothers to take note of it will I stop being creative? Nope. Will I stop blogging about it? Nope.
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Brilliant. So you will continue to blog for as long as you can type! Lifelong blogger 😀
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Yes, i suppose, lol!
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Here for the long haul! I’m almost using this as a personal diary/record of my own being so I don’t see it ending before I do. 🙂
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Yeah I love the idea of a blog being used to store memories. Imagine looking over ten year old posts and thinking woaah that was me.
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I try not to say how long, or how much of what I will or won’t do. Usually with me the opposite happens. I do PLAN on keeping my blog going for as long as I can and as long as I have someone still willing to read and enjoy my blog. And of course as long as I can think of something to blog about. Which I haven’t done the last few days. 🙂
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Haha yes that does tend to happen. I did daily posts for the first three months or so but I think that took a lot out of me.I had to wait for my creativity to recharge and plus it was the summer when all there was to blog about was the sun!
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I am doing good to get one on about once a week. Sometimes though I manage to get one about twice a week, and like your summer, if something is going on I do get one more than that. Some days I get depressed and don’t get anything on for a long time. But when I do get back on, my readers say they missed me. And that makes me feel better. Makes my day. 🙂
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Yup it does feel cool when you come back to your blog after a while and then you think aah I missed this!
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My blog on WordPress actually is my fourth blog. I think I am gonna blog as long as I still have passion on writing, good internet access where I am gonna be, and time to sit in front of my laptop or PC to do blogging. 😀
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Great 😀 Planning to never plan to end blogging then!
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Hahaha agree because I love doing this. In addition, I can improve my English. I am so glad that WordPress is very different from Blogger. Although we have to pay some money to customize our blog, it has an awesome community that can help bloggers to write 😀
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Yes the community on WordPress is awesome 😀
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This is a question I struggle with daily – but not for lack of WANT, but lack of time and sometimes motivation! I’d like my blog to go on forever, and it’s design and scope is meant to facilitate that, but it’s just a matter of finding stability in my regular, outside life before being able to really get into a routine with my writing… what a circular response THAT was! haha
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Haha..Hmm if it is due to lack of time, a blog can still function because it means when the time finally arrives, posts will come in bounds! Of course not writing for a long time can also lead to a lack of motivation so that’s tricky.
I find making blogging part of my outside life helps. For example quickly typing a post on my phone on the way to uni.
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Good advice! I’ll keep that in mind 🙂
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I’ve been blogging for just over a year and find it very informative for me. I originally wanted to promote the classroom management strategies of Time to Teach but have expanded my purpose to include articles about education both in private and public schools. I seem to receive most of my comments about articles about Autistic children. When will I stop blogging? Probably when I don’t receive any new followers and/or comments over a certain period of time, whatever that is. I’m really encouraged with how many readers I have from all points on Earth. That’s cool, right?
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Yes one of the coolest things about blogging is that we can interact with people all over the world. I always go ooo when a new country pops up on the stats page!
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I expect to be here until I die or the Internet does LOL!
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Haha I hope to do the same! 😀
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I’m riding the waves of WordPress on that shoreless sea. That definitely is something interesting to think about though.
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I had a couple of blogs before this current one, and they didn’t live long because I ran out of things to say. Since my current blog is about books / poetry / reading, and I expect to be reading for the rest of my life, I think it’ll probably keep going for a while yet.
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May our blogs live a very long and happy life!
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