Over the past 6 or so months I’ve been struggling with where I wanted to take this blog and Support for Special Needs. It’s just. I don’t know. Stagnated. I spoke about it at the Aiming Low Noncon at my roundtable I led and there were so many people who offered great feedback and shared their own stories of growth and change on their blogs. I’d not intended for my table to be about me, but I found a lot of people struggle with this growth and change thing in this digital world so it was good for discussion.
Here were the options I was/am considering and keep in mind I’ve been blogging for nearly 9 years…
- Leave Kidneys and Eyes up, but open up a new blog, or blog personally over at TheOtherJuliaRoberts.com since I own the URL and it’d be easy to do. I could then do kiddo updates on Support for Special Needs.
- Use Kidneys and Eyes for personal writing, and maybe just a new category or series, maybe just blog on a particular day if it’s Julia related and not sick kid related.
- Shut down Kidneys and Eyes. This is my least favorite option because several times a month someone stumbles across my blog and spends hours reading entire chunks of it, be it kidney or mental health related. I think about those people a lot when I think about shutting down K&E.
I’m going to use this month to explore what I want to do…and I’m going to do it while writing everyday during the November Blog Writing month…or NoBloPoMo (or as my friend Dawn used to say, the NoBloWhatever). I’m ready to face and deal with the reasons why I’ve backed off a bit from blogging and I’m looking forward to spending the month this way. I’ve also gotten too far away from reading blogs, so I’ll be reading more and sharing some new blogs with you.
Join me, won’t you?
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I hope you find your writing mojo and continue one wherever you choose. I’ll follow you!
I’ve been debating too – and I have a new idea – at the URL above. Let me know if you wanna talk!
I love the idea of keeping this blog as a resource no matter what your other choices are. As you said, families find you here, and it’s probably a life-line. I do, however love your other writing, and would love to read more from you in general, and I LOVE the blog name, “theotherjuliaroberts.com” TOJR, sounds like a cool boy band, and I’d subscribe. I’ll keep reading if you keep writing
Good luck as you ponder…
Good luck…with nablopomo and figuring out what tondo with your blogging.
I’m in too! #crazytalk
I’m interested to see your thought processed play out. I am pretty sure that I will be stopping Master of Irony soon and either writing only unpublished posts for myself or starting another place to write for myself. I feel that many people read only for the drama—-will she kill herself???? Did she get fired?? How can she manage waiting for SSDI? what will she share of her past?????—-and while I will always have times when things are very hard I also don’t think there is going to be a lot off day to day difference in my life now. I have gone from working and dealing with illness to working and only having 2 committments per week. I’ve set a deadline of Jan. 15, which is the blog’s birthday to decide. I think I know where it will end though.
I hope you don’t take Kidney’s and Eyes down. There is so much experience that others will benefit from in those pages.
Jen
I appreciate your blog and follow you closely. I’ll be awaiting your decision(s) Julia and Jen! God bless you as you explore your paths.
Using theotherjuliaroberts website and the supportforspecialneeds site for all your posts makes sense. To me, every age group that the children are in, starts another chapter for us parents (or as I like to call it “trading one worry for another” but I know that’s me). Whatever you decide I’m sure will be right for you. Where will the Lucy posts go?