Blogging advice posts seem to be the in thing right now, everyone and their cat seems to be doing them, and some I read and agree with, others not so much.
Starting out a blog can be something of a minefield, it's hard to know where to start, what to do, how to attract and audience or find your niche. It's hard, and I appreciate that, but the real trick to blogging? Write what you want to write.
If you're in blogging for the money, the freebies, or even the bizarre YouTube fame that seems to be a thing now, you're in it for the wrong reasons. You shouldn't be running a blog to build up a giant following, or work with amazing brands, you should be running a blog because you want to share something.
I am the proud owner of two little corners of the internet now. Bed In The Kitchen was born out of boredom in my first year of Uni, a burning desire to write, and a desperate need to find someone to talk to about lipstick. For the first year and a half, I'm pretty sure the only people reading it were my handful of twitter followers, and mum. But I carried on writing, and working on content that I loved, and that I knew I would love to read on someone else's blog. Every follower I have is a little burst of happiness for me, it means the world that there are nearly 2000 people out there that want to read my blog. But if they weren't around, I'd still be writing it.
Sometimes I read great posts, useful posts, on things like how SEO works, or how to use Pinterest with your blog, or how to create a great editorial calendar, and these are all fantastic, useful tools for bloggers. What I don't like, is when I see a post that says, 'you must post this many times a week, you must stick to posting about one topic, you must take your photos with a DSLR, you must find a niche.'
Your blog is exactly that, your blog. If you have a lot to say, post everyday. If you want to take a break, take a break. If you want to post once a week, post once a week. If you want to talk only talk about one thing, do that. If you want to talk about lipstick one day and music the next, than do that. The most important advice I can give any blogger, and really, the only piece of advice I think you need, is write a blog that you want to read. Write about whatever the hell you want, whenever the hell you want, and don't let anyone tell you that your blog isn't perfect.
