The
Blogger Recognition Award is given by fellow bloggers to show love and highlight worthy content within the blogging community.
I was nominated by the lovely Ruth, whose site is therollingtwenties.com. I'm so grateful to be nominated and especially by such a wonderful blogger. Seriously, I love hearing about her adventures and I dare you to find a day she's been horrible and not constructive to other bloggers. Never! She's such a kind person.
The Rules
- Thank the Blogger who nominated you
- Write a post as to why you started your blog
- Include 2 bits of advice you would give to other bloggers
- Nominate 15 other bloggers and comment on their response
Why I Started my Blog
I started this blog as a place to share
my poems & artwork, and sometimes sneak peeks into my life while
creating them. Originally I wanted to do pieces where I would
interview interesting people and feature their stories in a mixed
media portrait and a poem. That's why I named it We Earthbound Stars!
While I love making art of nature and
animals, and abstract ideas, I also adore making art that highlights
what makes individual people unique and beautiful. Life drawing is
beautiful but in the art world often times only represents a small
portion of the variety of looks, shapes, and personalities that
exists in the human race. I want to feature people that don't fit
into familiar, palatable cubbyholes.
I also found in starting a blog that the kinds of blogs I really appreciated were the ones with honest, real, and relateable writers who were honest about their struggles. It would be so easy to only post the happy, finished-product, always-successful moments and that kind of positivity does attract a lot of views. But I think the real and honest content brings the kind of viewers that stick around to read the next post, and who are invested enough to share your content with their friends.
I call myself an artist and it's my passion. But often the issues that affect my lifestyle often get in the way of being able to make art at the rate or level I'd like to, and if I didn't write about those I would still be the distant, sporadic blogger I started out as and didn't enjoy. I write about my autoimmune disorder, and my mental illnesses that fog my mind and block out creativity sometimes, and I'm lucky & grateful that there are readers that relate and appreciate seeing those problems represented in an honest way.
My Advice to Other Bloggers
My advice for bloggers is to try not to
take too much advice, honestly! It's easy to get hung up on trying to
find “the best way” by seeing what other people are doing, and
it's a good way to start, but the way to find your voice and your
strengths is to forge your own path and define what your way is!
I would also say to not be afraid of either going niche or nicheless in terms of posting. What does that mean? Well, it means don't worry about keeping your posts strictly to one topic because you can get burnt out on ideas very easily. But sometimes being too broad and posting on anything and everything can cause the views you get to be unpredictable, and people may not subscribe to future posts. It goes both ways, so a happy medium of one topic (which could be your lifestyle, thereby allowing any topics that affect your life but still having a general “theme”) and some similar topics surrounding it is a good balance!
I would also say to not be afraid of either going niche or nicheless in terms of posting. What does that mean? Well, it means don't worry about keeping your posts strictly to one topic because you can get burnt out on ideas very easily. But sometimes being too broad and posting on anything and everything can cause the views you get to be unpredictable, and people may not subscribe to future posts. It goes both ways, so a happy medium of one topic (which could be your lifestyle, thereby allowing any topics that affect your life but still having a general “theme”) and some similar topics surrounding it is a good balance!
My Nominations
This time I nominated a group of
bloggers I've been networking with on Instagram but felt I hadn't
given enough Twitter love to. They are all wonderfully creative and
have such a good variety of content! Here you can find them on Twitter and links to their blogs
@_ellabellax lifeofellabella.blogspot.com
@_ellabellax lifeofellabella.blogspot.com
2 comments:
I love this blog post! You deserve the award. You are an amazing writer, and you work so hard! 😃 I love your blog! ♥️ I love this post! Amazing work! 💜💜 xxx
This is such a lovely post! It's so uplifting you started your blog as a way of sharing your poems and artwork. This is why I love blogging; it's such a brilliant platform to showcase all our talents and passions! ♥︎
Sophie | soinspo xo
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