Comments on: What Would Make You Quit Blogging ?

By: Dwayne Charrington

Dwayne Charrington — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 05:10:33 +0000

I quit blogging for a little while myself. I just stopped writing. The reason I did so because I was getting bored with blogging. I started running out of inspiration for things to blog about.

I then started a new job which takes an hour to commute to on the train. I started taking my laptop to work with me, writing blog posts on the way to work and way back. This killed lots of time and I had no other distractions, and I had a stack load of inspiration simply by being somewhere other than at a desk in my house.

Try blogging on the go, it’s when your mind is at it’s brightest I seem to think.

By: Lex G

Lex G — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:16:33 +0000

Hmm the good old magic disappearing trick …

By: Bilingual Blogger

Bilingual Blogger — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:32:30 +0000

Everybody has got their different reasons for blogging and different pressure points that compel them to either quit or keep going. For those who quit, all I ask is that you turn the lights off and post one final entry saying “Thanks and good luck” to the readers. There’s nothing uglier than stumbling across an abandoned blog, one that hasn’t been updated in more than a year and the last entry gave no sign whatsoever that the owner was going to stop blogging. It’s like the blogger was kidnapped in the middle of the night, never to be heard from ever again.

By: Lex G

Lex G — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:13:27 +0000

@Vineet :

Well, let’s see where it goes then b.t.w. I didn’t think you were talking about me actually, but I was wondering about Jim’s comment … Seems that some have a little ‘hostility’ towards making money from a blog.

Also I don’t think that Jim understood what newmediatype is about.

So to Jim : newmediatype will never sell anybody false information about entrepreneurship and internet business. I don’t associate myself with ‘making money online’ in the style that ‘the mainstream does’ … So as a response to your remark about ‘if I got into blogging for the money’ : blogging doesn’t bring in a lot of money nowadays and blogs have many more uses to businesses then you might know …

Also, I believe that making money from a blog is ok, as long as it’s done tastefully. Anyway, that’s a different topic and prob. a different post …

By: vineetgupta

vineetgupta — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 07:27:36 +0000

Lex – The discussion here has moved away from the original topic of “what would make you quit blogging”. The ‘you’ in my comment is generic, and does not indicate you in particular.

By: Lex G

Lex G — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:24:16 +0000

Jim :

Is your comment directed to me ? If so, then let me tell you that I started newmediatype because I like blogging. I’ve been online since the BBS time which is years ago. Being online and communicating is my passion. I hope that I misunderstood the direction of your comment.

Vineetgupta:

Blogging isn’t a real money maker nowadays. I’m getting the feeling that people are commenting about this post without understanding the true meaning of why I wrote it.

By: vineetgupta

vineetgupta — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:25:57 +0000

To Jim – I guess people can have different motivations for writing – it is not up to us to decide why others blog. All we can do is decide for ourselves. I blog for the same reason as you do, but there is nothing wrong with anyone blogging for money… If he can get people to read what he writes.

On the other hand, blogging for money can also become very hard if you don’t get pleasure out of it. If you are miserable blogging but earning money off it, it is equivalent to having a bad job. And if you are miserable with your job, maybe its time to change.

By: Jim - Just a Guy

Jim - Just a Guy — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:53:47 +0000

The problem I am beginning to have with the blogosphere is this. A writer writes because they love writing. They have passion for it. Blogging is nothing if not writing. If you have no passion for writing then why are you blogging? If you get into blogging for money than you have already made it a job instead of following a passion for writing. Of course I am burned out on coming across an endless number of blogs that are about blogging better or how to make money. I love the blogs that are about anything else since I come across fewer of them. Really if you got into blogging to make money first and wrote second, then do yourself a favor and and quit. The passion of writing is what keeps me going. I don’t care who reads it or who likes it. I am not in it to make money. I am in it to write. Let the me bashing begin.

By: Lex G

Lex G — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:43:21 +0000

Slade,

This is the first time I’ve looked at the blog since I commented on the first reaction you left … Imagine that …

I don’t think that you were insensitive to what I was trying to say actually, as my feelings were still mixed while writing that post.

I haven’t written anything (except this comment) until now however ….

By: Slade | Shift Your Spirits

Slade | Shift Your Spirits — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:48:14 +0000

You know, Lex, I actually did NOT think that you were quitting when I first read this post. It was only after I went back and looked at it a second time that I wondered if I might have been insensitive to what you were trying to say…

I responded because of my own burn-out experiences (which I seem to live through about 3 times a year) and the fact that I so recently felt smothered by own business/branding and had to shake things up a bit.

Anyway, I’m glad indeed to hear that you are NOT personally giving up this blog. I just started digging it.