Motives For Blogging
Every writer on the blogosphere has their very own motives for blogging, some people write to become famous, others write to get across a message, many write to make money. I was the latter. I say “was” because I haven’t written a blog post in several weeks now. I have lost my motivation, my mojo if you will.
Blogging for money is dangerous. If you are becoming a blogger for money beware because it can ruin your hobbies. I took blogging to the next level for a few months with this site. It went from a laid back place to find some free stuff and get a few decent articles to a factory that pumped out generic competitions and daily articles whether they were good or bad. This site was becoming a well oiled machine but it was losing it’s soul in the process. Feed reader stats were going up, bounce rates where going down and simply stated revenues where beginning to take off. I am certain you are saying what is the problem.
The problem is that I no longer enjoyed writing for the blog. It was my hobby, but instead of writing when I felt like writing I was creating a giant research project for myself. I went from writing articles about things that I wanted to 1 or 2 times a week to regularly researching and reading and sweating over what to write about next so that I could see that simple increase in feed readers and the extra .25 cents in clicks. I took the heart out of what I was doing and turned it into another job.
I don’t need another job. I have enough stress and responsibility at work, so from now on look for this site to be more of a journal and less of a machine. I am not going to remove the ads from my site so don’t get your hopes too high, because if I can make money blogging without stressing about it I am sure as hell going to try.
So until next time.
Adam
The Good Word