When I first started blogging, I read some advice that said I should find a niche, and stick with it. In fact, I have read a variation on that advice several times.
But by diversifying your writing, you get people with different interests talking to each other.
It can be interesting to hear about a subject from a person who don’t normally engage with the culture around that subject.
And I am not just my photographies, my taste in movies, my fiction-writing, my past, or my cooking.
I am all of these things, and much more.
I write about all the things I love and care about; be it games, art, my girlfriend, food or music.
My niche is me.
Oh, I love that line, ‘My niche is me.’ Great post!
Thanks 😀
90% of this post (including that line) jumped into my head while I was at work, and I had to drop everything I was doing to quickly jot it down 😛
HEHE that’s the best time 🙂
Yay – you’re talking my language! I went through the exact same muddling thoughts and came to the same conclusion. And that last line IS AWESOME 🙂
Diversive blogging club! 😉
Thanks 😀
Had to do some editing to get it at the end.
At one point it was in the middle, and I think it deserved to be the closer.
I love that! That goes the same for ME! 👍🏻😃
High fives! 😀
I think all bloggers should at least occasionally venture into diverse places of their mind, even if 95% of their content is on a single subject.
Agreed!
Right attitude!😊 To blog is for me to share something I want to share, not what I think others want to see. I love to show my picture and write a bit about them, we have all different things we like.
Agreed 🙂
If you want to share it, there are bound to be people who want to see it aswell!
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Yup, you said it well Sindre … I started to do just walking posts but then sometimes I felt I wanted to “talk about” other subjects and since we deal with Winter and bad weather so many months out of the year, I started doing “Tuesday Musings” … it gives me some wiggle room to explore other options. P.S.: You are a well-rounded blogger. 🙂
You have worked out a good system that works for you 🙂
Thanks, I hope so.
Gonna do some more travel posts pretty soon, trying to spread my various types of content out a bit.
Yes, I remember you did some travel posts awhile ago – I said you were brave going without an agenda and hopping on a train, finding a hotel on the fly.
Yeah, it is the continuation of those posts that I am planning to write soon 🙂
Maybe next week, I think friday will be a post about the new Avengers movie.
I can’t incorporate travels into my blog too well – I should find a way as I digitized all my family and travel photos last year … that said, I scanned them in but they have to be tweaked as some of the album pages have 5-6 pics on one page and the need to be enlarged, then separated into individual photos. Many were taken with a pocket camera or Baby Brownie and even a Polaroid camera years ago, and it will be a big task to get the albums in order. I thought I’d get it done this past Winter but after the blogging took off and all the snow started falling (we got 60 inches of snow – that is a big deal for us and I shovel the neighbor’s house and he mows my lawn all Summer), I never got the pics done. Someday …
I hope you scan them, I’m sure you can use them somehow 🙂
I am glad I got the ones of me from when I was six scanned for my Finse post, may have never seen it again otherwise.
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I have used a few of them through the years – this was one time on Cinqo de Mayo from a California coastline trip in 1980:
https://lindaschaubblog.net/2015/05/05/head-for-the-border-cuz-its-cinco-de-mayo/
and this one when Caleb the Camel was a popular commercial. I really downsized my photos then when I compare them to how they look now. But if you click on both of them they’ll look a little better. These were scanned in on a regular scanner, the big “scan project” last November, I used an Epson color scanner, so hopefully they will look better.
https://lindaschaubblog.net/2013/09/25/caleb-asks-guess-what-day-it-is/
Those were great 😀
I’ve been blogging for a little over three years now. And I’ve read similar suggestions but instead of boxing myself in I blog about a bunch of different things that I like at well. I’d go stir crazy if I only had no topic. Nice post by the way
Thanks 🙂
I think it is ok if someone wants to write only on one topic, and there are those who only want to read one topic, but I think it is wrong to advice someone to box themself in.
Finding a niche naturally seems way better to me than cramming oneself into one.
I’ve always felt for a blog to survive long term the creator needs to be comfortable in they’re writing. If you tell yourself you can only do certain things the mind may shut down and burn out.
A blog should be about who you are, where you’ve come from and where you want to go. Looks like you are doing exactly that.
Right on!!!
Well put, and thanks! 😀
*fist bump*
Hear. Hear. You do you. And you continue to do it well.
Thanks, and same to you 🙂
Love that! – My niche is me…
I’ve also wondered how far we should stick to niches. I think when people give that advice it’s because they are only thinking of stats! But I think you get much more loyal followers if you challenge them to read different topics too.
True, and stats should not be valued as much as it is.
I shared my post about Thanos on Reddit, and since I was mostly upvoted there, I got 5500 views on that post.
But barely anyone clicked on to anything else I had written!
Better then to reach a single returning reader 🙂
Wow, that’s incredible! I’d still feel proud of that 😛
But yes, I do value my returning readers slightly more – I even find myself adding little bits into my blog posts that are intentionally just for them!
I am, but it just feels a bit like it lead to nowhere.
And besides the upvotes, the commenters on Reddit were pretty rude.
There were some thousand more views on the comment section on Reddit than on the post, so I think a lot of the commenters had not clicked in and read the post, and was judging the whole thing solely based on the title “Thanos the Abuser”.
Sounds fun to add hidden stuff, don’t know if I could think of anything like that myself 😛
Oh that’s a shame! But at least you know your writing had an impact! 😛
True 🙂
And the wast majority just upvoted without leaving a snarky comment, it is just easier to focus on vocal negativity than on silent positivity 😛