Turn Blog Depression Into Blogging Bliss

Critiqued by Cowboytf | September 24, 2007 .

What is blog depression?

It’s a mood disorder that can lead to loss of pleasure on the Internet, feelings of sadness, and passive aggressiveness moaning and a steady lengthening of intervals between posts. Most bloggers feel down and even find their own blog sickening to look at every now and then. It’s just a natural reaction to self induced pressures of blogging. When all these feelings are severe or prolonged, a blogger can lose all sense and become angry at an undertaking that is completely voluntary.

The fact is, if you do not blog for your own pleasure, then you are destined to have blog depression. You need to ask yourself, “Why do I blog?”. You absolutely HAVE to blog about what you love!

If you dread thinking what your next post is going to be about and you are now relying on beer & snacks to get your through it, then you are in a deep blog hole. Just remember, no-one cares about your blog as much as you do because they have their own so don’t overwhelm yourself with the pressure to post.

What you need to do to get out of your blog depression:

Get a freakin’ grip. A blog is open ended and, unless your trying super hard to sell something, it really has no specific purpose. Dang it, just relax a bit. If people like your blog they’ll come back whether or not you missed one post.

Take a break. The world is not going to end because you stopped contributing for a day or so. Go eat some donuts or something.

Blog for yourself. If you’re blogging about something you don’t really even care about but are doing it because everyone else is doing it, then you are most likely gonna fail and fall into “blog depression”. Blog about what you know and what you like…you can expand yourself later on when you’re comfortable and happy with your blog for what it is.

If you’re sick & tired of the whole dang thing, then change it. After all, it IS YOUR blog, right? Maybe you just aren’t cut out for the whole thing. Sometimes you just gotta know when to fold em’.

Don’t let it ruin your life and don’t waste perfectly good URLs.

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3 Comments so far

Catherine Lawson September 25, 2007 2:50 am

Hi - I love the layout of your blog and the colours. I totally agree. It would be a nightmare to blog about something you didn’t enjoy.

I used to have 3 blogs but I dropped one. Whilst it wasn’t a subject I didn’t enjoy - it was one that required a lot of research for up to date info and I just didn’t have the time.
Cowboytf September 25, 2007 6:13 pm

Thank you Catherine for the nice words. I had 8 blogs and dropped to 3. It was overwhelming to say the least!
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