To Blog or Not To Blog: The Power of Short Blog Posts
How starting off too big is not the way to go
For most people, blogging is one of those things that they never end up getting to. They don’t know how to start. How long should my posts be? What do I even write about? These are all questions and concerns that many of us have when we are considering blogging. This may seem a bit odd that I’m writing this considering that it’s my first ever blog post, but that should give me some more room to relate to those of you who have been procrastinating on starting a blog forever.
Like many people, I got the idea to start a blog during quarantine. I had heard of the benefits, the possible idea of making money (which is not why you should write blogs), and the fact that it seemed fun. I had some ambitious goals at first. I wanted to write about the Myers-Briggs personality types, because that is what I was obsessed with at the time and I knew a ton about it. I researched how to make money from it, start my own website, but ultimately I never started, until now. I got the idea over the past Thanksgiving when my uncle brought up the fact that blogging while I was still a teenager would build great habits and teach me awesome skills for the future. I thought, “seems like a good deal. Might as well try it”, so here I am.
Back to main point, why did I not actually start that first blog? Great question. The main reasons were because I was over-complicating things and I wasn’t willing to experiment. I thought I had to have a strong niche from the beginning, but the truth is, you learn from experimentation. This applies to many areas of life, but how on Earth can you know what you want to do/write about if you haven’t tried many things out? I wanted to skip the small steps and go straight to the overall masterplan as many of us want to do. This however, prevented me from starting in the first place.
My uncle asked me to look at Seth Godin, a very well-known blogger, who does not write long blog posts by any means, but he still has a strong following and great content. I am not an expert on Seth at all, but his large amount of experience in writing short blog posts is something I am very impressed by. It gives inspiration by showing people that you don’t have to write crazy large amounts to have a decent blog. These short posts are ultimately what’s going to get us aspiring bloggers from nothing to something.
Well to conclude my first blog post that is about short blog posts, I hope that I have taught someone out there a lesson about blogging. It’s growing in popularity, but it seems really intimidating to most people to see very long articles with proper research and great information on it. By starting small, you will be much more likely to continue this in the future and reap all the snazzy benefits that come from writing.
