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I OutGrew My Blog.
Am I the only one who has ever outgrown a blog? It was the wierdest thing. Last Saturday, I tried to prepare myself to write something "relentlessly real" and I realized that my well of creativity had run dry. I had nothing else to be cynical and "real" about. Though I'd only had the blog 3 months, I had to say goodbye. I can feel myself headed in a different direction. I feel like I lost a friend, but I'm hoping that my new blog will give me more room to be myself and share my uncanny thoughts with the world.
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Permalink Reply by Ben on -
I haven't ever outgrown a blog per se.
I still have the same one I started with way back when. I suspect it has headed off in several different directions since then (along with re-designs etc.), but I guess I think of them more as evolutions than anything.
I suppose it is because I feel my blog is relatively representative of me as a person (in that it contains a lot of inane bollocks about my life). To me that includes who I was, as well as who I am now.
So really I could ask the question, why did you feel a change of direction required a fresh start?
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Permalink Reply by NNL on -
Interestingly enough, Ben. I have trouble with commitment. ;-) I just felt dry and trapped in that template/title/space. I tried to redesign but nothing worked. I am not the artist who can edit or smudge. I do a lot of throwing away. Sometimes its healthy. Sometimes it isn't. But everything was all wrong about the blog that I had. I thought I had a lot to say, but I didn't. So I made a come back....two days later. Lol.
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Permalink Reply by Ben on
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I've certainly felt like scrapping parts of my blog before (you know, the parts that are painful to go back and read), so I can identify with that.
Plus I'm pretty comfortable tinkering around with layout and stuff, so if I ever feel like a change in that regard it isn't too much hassle.
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Permalink Reply by Lacey Bean on -
I had a Live Journal and I outgrew that. I felt it was very high school and I was definitely not (in high school.) Also I felt limited by it. I've had my blog, Perks of Being a JAP, for almost 2 years this September. Still love it. And I just had a redesign which definitely got some of the creative juices flowing again!
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Permalink Reply by Jamie on -
I did the whole Livejournal thing for years but then moved on to a "grown up" blog at wordpress.
I can definitely see how one might feel that way. It's nice to have a fresh start with a new name, new design and "fresh slate" so to speak every now and then.
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Permalink Reply by Guess Who on -
I'm a bit like you. I have horrible commitment problems when it comes to my blog and my online identity, probably because of my own uncertainties with my personal identity. I'm currently in the process of starting again, but I forgot how much work it takes before I'm happy with it! It's funny, too, because up until a certain point a few years ago, I could stay at one LiveJournal name or wherever I was at the time. Good luck with the new one! I hope you'll find yourself a home you'll feel comfortable staying at.
I'm still at LiveJournal with loads of good people who aren't the typically teeny 'net folk that most people expect on LJ, but I can't be as active there either. It's funny to see others who were there first, though! I wonder how many of us got our online journaling/blogging start on that site, all those years ago.
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Permalink Reply by NNL on
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It's amazing how much it has all evolved isn't it? I think that I've connected myself too much to the concept of followers too. I really forgot to write for me and I started hoping I wasn't offending anyone. Then...it all went to hell.
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Permalink Reply by Nat on -
I haven't outgrown my blog I think it has grown with me in ways. It has been through many changes and most recently it has had to start a new due to hackers and what not but the timing of it is prob perfect as I am heading off into new territory so is my blog.
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Permalink Reply by Jenn Vargas on -
I actually wrote about this the other night because it's been bugging me a lot lately! I've been writing in the same place for almost 7 years and now that I've just graduated from college I feel like it's time to separate that from my "grown up" self.
Not to mention the fact that I tend to twitter, flickr, delicious, etc. multiple times a day leaving me with little to put on my blog. I dunno...
here...the whole spiel: http://www.forever-digital.net/2009/08/02/time-to-move-on/
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Permalink Reply by Mimi on -
I dont think we outgrow our blogs. its just that the way we blog and what we write about changes. if you do read your entries starting from the initial ones to the last ones you did you are definitely bound to see some 'growth' and seeing as it had only been 3 MONTHS! sometimes we get bloggers block for a while or maybe censor ourselves too much such that we have very little or nothing to write about.
For you I think its just commitment issues. ditching your blog for another one won't solve the problem! its like trying to run away from problems. it never solves anything. maybe you should work on that.
All the best!!
http://06mickey.wordpress.com
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Permalink Reply by NNL on
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Thanks mickey. I think you're absolutely right. I was so censored that I lost all motivation to keep writing. :-I
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Permalink Reply by cooper on -
I outgrew the whiny live journal scenario of my high school and college blogs my freshman year of college and got a blogspot blog, though what I write now is somewhat different than what I wrote when I began, and I've changed platforms, I've never ditched the blog. It is merely a work in progress. But as the blog never had a direction and still doesn't it doesn't really matter. I did have to start a totally seperate blog for a very specific topic that I was writing about at the time though, as it tended to overwhelm the blog and some readers felt their peace of mind was threatened.
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