I know this sounds like a big joke to some people, but it's a reality. Blogging is difficult. It's a pain to try to think of something witty and creative to write about every day or a few days a week. It can be quite a feat to keep your audience interested in your blog while also attempting to draw in new readers. In this world of social media, nobody wants to be written off as irrelevant or inconsequential. Thanks to sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, people's entire identities are wrapped up in whether someone liked their status update, retweeted some asinine tweet of theirs, or favorited a picture they posted of the sun shining through the autumn leaves on a tree. Who we are online has become an extension of our personalities and lives. Blogging is no different.
This blog is very much a part of who I am. The past year and some change that I've been writing BlackGirlNerd has been a lesson to others in the variety of things that interest me. It's a reflection of my character and all around nuttiness that encompasses ME (f-bombs and all.) The purpose of my referencing other social media is because I use it to connect friends and strangers to my blog. Without it, I would find it quite challenging to spread the word of BlackGirlNerd to others. I would have to resort to *gasp* posting flyers and handing out business cards. The horror!
My biggest challenge is thinking of something new and interesting to blog about. By interesting, I mean something that will hold MY interest long enough for me to write a coherent blog entry about it. I have dozens of ideas to blog about, but very few of them make the cut. My dilemma is further compounded by the lack of traffic to my blog. While I do have a decent-sized audience, I don't have a large number of dedicated followers to give me constructive feedback on what works and what doesn't work with BlackGirlNerd. Clearly, I'm doing something wrong with my blog, be it content, design, or advertising of the blog itself. Once I get an idea of what my audience truly appreciates about my blog and what it would take to entice more to follow me, then I will have a much easier time with blogging.
