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 Holly on August 4, 2009 at 6:24pm

I recently felt this way about my personal blog, but I think for me just takeing a step back and not worrying about it is going to do wonders. I just don't have anything in my life going on that needs to be written about.

I have gotten rid of 2 blogs because I did lose interest in the topic so no your not the only one.

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Permalink Reply by Nessa B. Goode on August 5, 2009 at 9:41am

I can completely relate to this. I started my old blog as a way to chronicle my single life and dating adventures. Well less than a year into it and I got into a relationship with my now boyfriend. I found myself writing about relationships and dating, but wanted to write about so many other things. So I bought a domain and now I blog about whatever I want in my search for self at Am I the Only One? I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who's "growing up."

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Permalink Reply by Mila G. on August 5, 2009 at 9:51am

I still love my blog, but I think its cause Im out of a job and it gives me something to do.

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Permalink Reply by Oats on August 5, 2009 at 9:59am

I think that given a long enough period of time, anyone will recognize that their blog is not what it used to be. The recent blog carnival "Looking Back" was a good pointer for that. We don't outgrow our blogs, per se, but rather, our blogs grow with us. I had hundreds of posts on my Myspace blog before I started my blog on blogger. I didn't feel that I had outgrown my blog, but I had definitely outgrown Myspace. So I went back, read ALL of my previous blogs, copied the good ones and saved them as text files in a Blog folder. I've reposted a few of them with their respective dates, but mostly because they show how much my blog has adapted.

I don't like using the term evolved in blogging because that insinuates that you've killed off one blog and the best features survived for the next blog. Adaptation shows the plasticity in your blog, that it is not static and can change directions at any time and still be the same blog. It's not always necessary to be cynical and witty in your blog. Similarly, you don't always have to be absolutely hilarious to post. Ultimately, you are not writing for anyone else but you, and people who identify with you will read your blog regardless of what you write.

I OutGrew My Blog.

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