Monday 6 August 2018

Dual Blogger Dual Blogging (Or Am I Going Crazy?)

Back in March I took the massive decision to join my friends over at The Regal Critiques as a co-blogger. Co-blogging has always made sense to me. I need that support! And I massively underestimated how difficult it would be (and rewarding by the way). My blogging output has increased in quality but decreased massively in quantity and at the moment my goal is to find a balance. Meanwhile, I've developed a totally different writing style over at The Regal Critiques than I have here. Both are authentically me and both reflect my thoughts and personality but in such different ways that I have confused myself on occasions! Also - different fonts and post layouts, different schedules. I'm an easily confused gal. 


None of this is by any means a bad thing. Back when I first started blogging my reading took a significant drop. If you look back through my goodreads challenges the time before blogging had me reading frankly ridiculous amounts of books that I can't even comprehend right now. And sometimes, yeah, I miss being able to just zip through books like that. But then I think how much more I enjoy books now - how much I love discussing them with people who love books as much as I do. How much I enjoy just slowly reading a book and then fangirling online about why and how I love it. 

For me this new blogging experience is similar. I sometimes feel like a failure because I'm not posting every day like I did a year ago. But my life has changed since then, my responsibilities have changed and I've opened myself up to new experiences. So as guilty as I feel (and will continue to feel for a while probably) about dividing my time between two blogs I'm slowly coming to realise - I love both blogs, I love both versions of "me" that I express between them. And I love how proud I am of every post I do now. Even if those posts are so very much fewer than they once were.


Being a co-blogger on two blogs is challenging in a million different ways - all of which probably deserve a whole separate post - but it's so much more rewarding and exciting. And hey, me and Ann have now thrown our YouTube channel into the mix (subscribe to Dual Reads if you're interested) so that's three blogs. I'm definitely over-ambitious and probably a little crazy. But I absolutely love it. 


What is the biggest blogging challenge you've taken on and how do you feel about it now? Or what challenge do you want to take on and what's holding you back? 

6 comments:

  1. Well if you're happy doing it that's the most important thing. :) Glad they are both working for you, and it's kinda cool how you've developed a voice for each platform. Sounds like it's going well!

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    1. Thank you! Support from you (and others) has been incredible and is probably why I'm still hanging in there!! Which I'm glad of because now I'm past the initial rough start I can fully enjoy blogging twice over!

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  2. I love this post, because even though you've talked to me about this a bit before, you definitely went into more depth now. I'm so thankful you've joined us at TRC, and I love the posts you've been making for both this and that blog. <3

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  3. I just came across this post and I have to second what Vera said in the comment right above- we're so, so glad you decided to join us and THANK YOU for being so amazing. I'm finding it hard managing my time with one blog- it's mindblowing how you're dividing your time between us, here and now YouTube as well! Do know that we really, really appreciate you! <3

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