The Hard Times are Over, And I’m Baaaaaack!

Hellllllloooooo everybody! I’m back in the blogging business after a long, long hiatus of about 3 months. The last post I did was about A Drastic Change of Plans, where I told you guys I had to put a hold on blogging because of my looming O’Levels. You gotta give the time to education too, ya know!

Well, now I’m done with them and have vacations and aim to get back into blogging head-on at full speed. But, I’ve made an important decision regarding this blog. I am going to change the way I post, or rather the focus of this blog a lil bit. We all know there are scores of blogs out there focusing on meta-blogging, or are blogging about blogging, just like this blog.

No doubt some are greats in the business and are truly helpful, but the rest of them seem to be arguing and debating about the same topics again and again, even me. Also, most of them pick up on topics started by the greats, instead of thinking up new ones.

What one starts another takes ahead. It becomes a vicious cycle of the same stuff being recycled. And it ends up in the reader being bored and you losing another reader.

Even I sometimes am caught up in this cycle, especially when I feel I don’t have nothing to write about. Just for the sake of filling in words, and to maintain my regular posting schedule, I would browse the internet and upon reading anything interesting, already mentioned on one blog, I would simply, in a way, rephrase what the writer was trying to say and present it to you, my readers. What was that? Just a continuation of the vicious cycle I mentioned earlier!

Unfortunately, not many bloggers realize soon enough what I’m saying now, and continue on with the cycle, until it is too late to realize. As a result, their blogs fail and they are left dumb founded about the reason. What actually happened was that their readers did not like to read the same material over and over again, and so ditched their blog for the better and original ones, which actually provided new content instead of old and recycled one.

In my long blogging hiatus, this feeling came to me. I don’t say that this same thing had been mentioned on other blogs much before, but I realized it just recently. So, what I’ve decided is to deviate a little from my normal blogging topics. I still am going to write on topics like blog promotion and the like, but will try to make my posts a little different from the norm; make them more interesting and present them from a point of view that no one has ever seen before. Even if the content is recycled, if it is presented in a unique and new way, readers don’t mind reading it, because it seems interesting to them.

I’ve also found that using examples from real life and then comparing them with blogging is a great help. This is mainly because every reader has sometime in their life experienced the real life example you give in your post. As a result they can understand better what you are trying to say, and what’s better than gaining the confidence of your readers?

So, from now on, I’ll be writing on the same or different topics but from a different point of view. I know it is difficult, but no pain, no gain! You try it too, if you don’t already, and see the difference!