I am definitely getting sick of hearing how to be a great blogger.
I am seeing it all over my Google Reader, all over the web, being tweeted, being oohed and ahhed over and studied like manuals on how to be a great blog.
STOP. Just STOP.
Being a great blogger doesn’t mean you achieve fame in as little time as possible, or that you managed to quit your full-time job and become a blogger.
A great blog is just that a person simply likes writing it and it comes through in their writing.
I’d rather read blogs I’ve featured from other so-called “small-time” or “no-name” bloggers because I find their content relevant to me and I feel like they’re BETTER bloggers than those big-name ones who incidentally seem to feature a lot of guest posts. Just saying.
Even if sometimes they write nonsense and it’s not really what people want to comment on.
It’s still THEM and their words, and a little sentence here and there in a blog can make me laugh out loud.
And that’s the beauty of blogging.
I’m getting sick of bloggers being compared to a scale of who is doing better than who, who has more subscribers, who should tweet like hell on Twitter to effin’g TIP each other (WTF is TIP anyway) so that their articles get listed in a directory or whatever, and they get more readers.
I immediately unsubscribe to bloggers like that because it annoys me.
I didn’t sign up to your blog or subscribe to you in Twitter to read about how your book is doing, where you’re interviewing, or to be asked and ANNOYED to constantly promote or Tip your posts.
If they’re good, I’ll retweet them, share them in my Reader or tell people on my blog: This is a great post and you should head over and read it.
I signed up to read YOUR content. Even if it’s crap some of the time and a gem once in a while.
I don’t like being pressured into anything.
I just want everyone to get over this phase of pressuring bloggers indirectly or directly and just let them blog and find their own way to blog.
And seriously?
Advice like “Write an amazing post” is really useless advice for bloggers.
If we could just write amazing posts 7 times a week, 52 weeks a year, we’d effing do it.
But sometimes, you can’t get the inspiration, and/or you write something you think will set the world on fire and it turns out to be a dud.
Then when we write one-off “Was just thinking about this” posts, it goes bananas in comments and is all over the web.
Sometimes you just can’t predict what is going to be a good post or not.
But you can predict that if all bloggers out there continue to practice and write with passion and conviction, it will eventually be their own blogging style, and will attract readers organically, without consciously forcing content onto them.
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