I have tried starting blogs in the past but i am always too lazy to keep up with them
how do you people with blogs stay motivated?
Reply to this I usually make blogs from the emails I send to my boyfriend while I am away. That is a lot easier than sitting down and trying to think up some blog material about a place.
Reply to this I'm not always motivated, but I just do it anyway... Partly for my friends and family at home and partly for myself, it will be a kind of diary for later. When I travel I post a blog every 10 days... I mostly think of a theme for the blog the day or night before and than just write it as I am sitting there... Sometimes when I really don't have the motivation, I have to think of something on the spot, that can be hard. Mostly turns out alright though. What keeps me doing it? Because I know I will be happy I did it later on. Oh and encouragement from my readers also helps me through the lazy times 😊 Its always good for the motivation when people tell you they love your blog.
Reply to this Hi Piero. I started blogging because I wanted to chronicle all my random thoughts and travel experiences - call it a diary, if you like. It also helps me remember all the places, observations and new learnings whenever I write them down. It's a great memory aid. After a few blogs, I found myself actually enjoying reading my own blogs not because I arrogantly think they were well-written, but because the memories they evoke provide cheerful thoughts and a smile! I have traveled with friends and family, and whenever I miss them, I just go over some of the blogs that remind me of the wonderful trips I made with them.
Reply to this > but because the memories they evoke provide cheerful thoughts and a smile!
That's so true 😊 - reading things I wrote 7 years back - the memories that they bring back are very intense.
Originally I started blogging my travels in a similar way to Mel - the emails I would have written to families and friends became the blog. Minus a few details as it's a public place.
I tried blogging about everyday life - to be honest - it wasn't interesting for me or my readers... I think this is the reason why blogs are often considered boring - when I'm travelling though the events are interesting enough to blog, plus it's not something I'm trying to squash into an already crowded life.
Reply to this I blog after the event. While I travel I keep a hand written diary. Contructing the 'blog', which I do weeks, months or even years after the journey is for me a way of reliving the journey. Specially useful at times that I cannot travel due to money or work restraints.
Reply to this I find that bloggings a cheap alternative to calling home and as all my family can access it I dont have to worry about mailing lists or missing someone out. It does help that I like to write and my blog is certainly different to anything else I've turned my pen to.
Reply to this Oh and encouragement from my readers ....
Yeah, real people to interact with also keeps me interested. If there werent real people visiting TravelBlog, I wouldnt bother to put blogs or posts here. I would just talk with myself instead.
Reply to this We decided to blog because it is both a way of holding the memories and a way of letting people know where we are. We have made many trips in the past and, while we have photos and such, there are details that get lost. We didn't want this to happen on this trip. We try to post once a week or once per country. The discipline of writing is not always easy to maintain but we don't want these memories to fade.
Reply to this We decided to blog because it is both a way of holding the memories and a way of letting people know where we are.
Exactly my thoughts!
I havn't started my blog yet (we leave for SE Asia and Australia in July) and I do have some doubts as to wether I will keep up with it. I will try to, as I know we will love looking back and remembering all the places we saw, people we met things we did.
I think it will help me/us to keep a connection with home too, family leaving little comments or mentioning the blog in emails, will help us feel less seperated from family, who I know I will miss after more than a year away.
Dan
Reply to this My reasons for writing my blog have changed during the years I have been writing it: at first (a year studying in Russia - my first blog) I wanted to keep track of every single thing that I had done. It mentioned all the details, even the very boring ones, and I added a blog every day so my family would know that I was safe too.
Since I have been in Kiev (my second blog), my presentation has changed. At the start I added one per week, as a summary of what I had done. It was very personal/egocentric; I wrote in the hope of receiving comments as I was quite lonely.
The more I settled in, the less frequently I wrote (I publish about one a month now) - but I take more care in writing them, so they are now little articles or stories about Ukraine as opposed to emails with pictures. I've become slightly less of an attention-seeker, and my motive for writing them is now to improve my writing style and photography, which have become my hobbies.
J.
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