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I’ve been blogging for a very long time (for over five years – whew), and I don’t think I’ve ever had this hard a time to keep up with it. I blogged through my high school graduation, through good times and bad. And now I’m in my last few months of my bachelor’s degree and […]
Many blogs post tutorials on how to blog. What most of these tutorials have in common is that there is an underlying thought of what a successful blog is. A successful blog in their eyes is a blog that reaches as many readers or followers. Other people measure their success in comments or ad revenue. […]
When you just start out with blogging, doing upkeep is simple. I notice this with my (relatively) new blog Irresponsible Cactus – it’s easy to just keep everything in the same kind of format. All posts match, the archives are nearly non-existent, and I only need to tweak a few details now and then to […]
This post will be the 1000th blog post on Nyx Book Reviews One. Thousand. Posts. I’ve wrecked my brain over this one. What can possibly be a worthy thing to post on a milestone as big as this? I’ve never celebrated a blogoversary – April always comes and goes – but I can’t ignore this […]
Last week, I outlined the bare bones of how I manage my blog. A quick recap: first, I tried to find out what exactly I wanted to post (be it reviews, discussions, memes, or a mix thereof). Secondly, I tried to mold that image I had of what I wanted to post into a weekly […]
I’ve wanted to do a new post on how I manage my blog for a while, ever since I outlined my (then) new method in a two part post series called On Being More Organised in Blogging (part one and part two). And I realised it might actually help other people – because for the […]
Don’t you just hate it when you’re trying to think of something to post, and there is just nothing popping into your head and you just really really want to post about something? In this post I will outline the five stages of the “I don’t know what to blog about today” phenomenon. Stage one: […]
Ah, reviews. The age-old controversy amongst bloggers. Do book reviews make a book blogger? Do book reviews make a blogger a reviewer? Are book bloggers critics, or are they readers? What does a good review make? All of these questions concerning reviews are interesting ones, but ones that will be left for another day. Today […]
When I started my month of Blog Detox (one month without memes or reviews) I didn’t really think about what effect this month would have on my reading. I only thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if it changed the way I felt about blogging – but it’s having a huge effect […]
About a month ago I blogged about my new way of organising my blog posts. Basically, I have a calendar in Word that I continually update, in which I keep track of what ideas for posts I have, and whether they have been written or not. The current version of the December page looks like […]