Food Blogging ~ Fun Ideas to shake off The Food Blogging Blues
August 27, 2012
Topics: Blog, Food Blogging
You’re blogging away day after day, month after month, interacting with your readers, attracting a new audience and then BAM. You get the blues.
It happens to every blogger.
Our passion begins to feel like a chore, you begin to avoid the computer altogether and question why you are even blogging.
What’s a food blogger to do?
Have FUN!! Use this time to experiment with your blog, try something new, mix it up and reconnect with why you began blogging in the first place.
Here’s a few ideas I have personally used in past to shake off those blogging blues.
- Restaurant Review ~ Ahh the wonderful restaurant review. Get out of the kitchen and try that new place you have been dying to go to. Bonus, no clean up. What could be better? Snap a few pictures with your phone and share your experience.
- Guest posts ~ Ask a few food blogging buds to help you through your rut. Share your space and feature a guest post from a food friend you admire.
- Interview a fellow food blogger or local chef~ Why not interview a fellow food blogger or a local chef? What inspires them? Where does their love of food stem from? Favorite family meals?
- Review a cookbook~ Maybe you recently purchased a new cookbook. Why not offer an insightful review or feature a few recipes from the cookbook.
- Take a break~ Relax. Take a week off, take two or as long as it takes for you to feel refreshed, energized and ready to blog again. Balance is important. Take time to enjoy your family, meals and friends. Your readers will understand and your blog will reap the benefits of your reenergized spirit.
Have fun, find your path and Keep blogging!!
Share: What helps you through the blogging blues?
image: Sweet Life
A Proud Tejana who feel lucky to have the best of both worlds, Vianney Rodriguez was happily raised in Texas by Mexican parents. She spends her days in the kitchen blending her two worlds. In her blog, Sweet Life, she celebrates life, heritage, cooking, her eternal love for Texas and La Familia. You can find Vianney dishing up her favorite plates at Sweet Life and as the Food Contributor to New Latina. Follow her on Twitter @sweetlifebake
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ruby
Great tips! I agree that a break is sometimes just what we need to get back in the swing of things!
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