This guest post is by freelance writer Jocelyn Anne.
Have you ever had one of your own blogs written by yours truly complete and ready the dang thing bored of your own mind? To the point where it is too painful to even again for basic proofing?
Well if you haven't, fear not, your day. It happens. All good things must come to an end, or so they say. Not that I say you'll always boring. It's just a phase. Or something. Anyhow. Here's what's up.
If you're bored, are your readers get bored. And if your readers are bored, they're going to stop coming back — such as, super-fast. Readers are picky like that. While you may believe that your temporary boredom just a phase, and I believe that your last reckless boring post was just a fluke, other readers may have probably not so friendly. They flee boring like crazy.
So, what this boils down to the fact that you don't need a whole lotta time to live and wallow in your stage. Maybe a few posts (if you're lucky). Boredom calls for desperate measures. You'll have to ditch yourself completely to be someone much newer and cooler and hipper than you are. Sayonara baby.
My favorite way to break the boring posting slop is to create a completely new person. New alias, new pen-name, what have you. I decide what I will look like (always a kind of super model, of course), what my past was like, where I am headed in life and how many hundreds of dollars I am paid to write this blog (it helps). Then I decide what I am passionate about. Who cares if it even remotely relevant to what I usually blog about it. Clearly neither I, nor my readers can bear to read a more of that right now.
So. Are you a new person, with a new passion. If you have guts, you can book as yourself. If you're not so gutsy, post it as a guest blog. Bottom line, doing what will allow you the most freedom and most have fun. Wacky. Be crazy. Be fanatical. It is frankly irrelevant. The important thing is that you have a voice again. It would be a super hero, it would be a cartoon character. It would be your super sexy blonde neighbor with the Greek goddess tan that you despise. It would be the nerd that lurks behind the recycling at the Piggly Wiggly. You get the point. Choose one and write about bananas. Or maybe boxes.
Now, depending on the severity of your boredom "condition" you can determine how this take. You need a whole new blog? Probably not. But if you're like you feel that is just too far gone for recovery, then do it! A new break down and start again. Sometimes a new little WordPress layout already lasts. If you think you just need to break out, then more likely than not, a few posts will do the trick and some pizzazz back to the normal, everyday you. If you feel that you are back at any time could slip, then instill something Friday Fun day and post under your nickname once a week from now on. Your readers will develop a bond with the two of you and you'll get if you and someone is probably a lot more exciting.
What will happen is that you'll have fun. Believe it or not. I know, I know, sometimes blogging is torture. But this will not. You must use a whole new area of your brain, a whole new capacity of your wit and humor and your sass that probably is not yet the light of day in far too long. And, especially if you as a guest post, you have no fear of the consequences. There is nothing that can touch or harm you, because who is the nut that wrote that piece, weren't you! Brilliant, eh? To write a few pieces. Write until you see the spark and vim and vigor that you used to have in your area of expertise.
Now, while I suggested this idea especially for those of you suffering from boredom, or at least for those of you making your readers suffer your boredom, it's actually not the only thing is this handy-dandy technique is good for. It is also great for the wanna-be-writer struggling with finding and settling on a voice. Heck, try a new vote per week. Tom Toronto this week, sweet Sara next. (A genus writing voice mix-up is always interesting.) Once you have a voice you've fallen in love with, then step in your own. Claim your own name and link them to the voice that you connected. This would be very useful for writing 101 when your Professor hates everything that you do.
And finally! It is also great for the blogger who desires as controversial but doesn't have the backbone, the experienced blogger who needs some work to improve his technique, the old blogger who has been blogging for much, much too long and my personal pet peeve: the blogger who seemingly forgotten is that blogs once consisted of words and has since taken to posting annoying iPhone photos of what he ate for breakfastbreakfast, lunch and dinner instead. (Isn't that annoying?!)
Maybe you know of a blogger or two to this article to pass? I know that I do.
Freelance writer Jocelyn Anne is an avid blogger and writes sometimes like Ella Stella as she gets boring. But, at this moment you can find her writing about fascinating used for a portable air conditioner!
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