{"id":41971,"date":"2015-08-03T01:22:44","date_gmt":"2015-08-02T14:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/problogger.com\/?p=41971"},"modified":"2015-08-06T18:14:27","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T07:14:27","slug":"thinking-of-quitting-blogging-the-tale-of-one-blogger-who-did-and-what-happened-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/problogger.com\/thinking-of-quitting-blogging-the-tale-of-one-blogger-who-did-and-what-happened-next\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking of Quitting Blogging? 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The Tale of One Blogger Who Did (and What Happened Next!) on ProBlogger.net\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/problogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/boss-fight-stock-images-photos-free-end-pier-960x640.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/problogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/boss-fight-stock-images-photos-free-end-pier-960x640.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/problogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/boss-fight-stock-images-photos-free-end-pier-960x640.jpg?resize=533%2C355&amp;ssl=1 533w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/problogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/boss-fight-stock-images-photos-free-end-pier-960x640.jpg?resize=150%2C100&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/problogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/boss-fight-stock-images-photos-free-end-pier-960x640.jpg?resize=70%2C47&amp;ssl=1 70w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>There has been a definite shift in the blogosphere over the last 12 or so months, and I&#8217;ve heard story after story of people who feel a real sense of transition in the air. Blogging can take a toll on the strongest of people, what with its 24-hour cycle, it&#8217;s relentless need to be updated, and its ability to totally take over your life if you let it.<\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;ve noticed, though, is how hard it is for people to let go. Either to let go of their blogs completely, or to\u00a0let go of the parts of blogging that don&#8217;t serve them (me included!). It could be fear holding them back, or resistance to change, the motivation is\u00a0different for all &#8211; but I wondered how helpful it would be to hear from people who dealt with all of these feelings very differently.<\/p>\n<p>From someone who straight-up quit, to someone who hung in there, to another who merged blogging with other pursuits, the experiences I&#8217;ll be sharing this week have given me hope. I always find it useful to see how others have made huge changes and not only survived, but thrived, and I know you&#8217;re going to find some solace in the stories \u00a0from <strong>Megan Tietz<\/strong> today, <strong>Nicole Avery of <a href=\"http:\/\/planningwithkids.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Planning With Kids<\/a> <\/strong>Wednesday, and <strong>Heather Armstrong from <a href=\"http:\/\/dooce.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">D<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/dooce.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ooce<\/a><\/strong> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Megan blogged at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sortacrunchy.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sorta Crunchy <\/a>for eight years before finally laying it to rest at the beginning of 2015, and setting off for pastures new. If you&#8217;ve ever thought of just walking away and starting afresh somewhere else, <em>this one&#8217;s for you.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>When did you start to realise it might be time to stop blogging?<\/h3>\n<p>I happened across a post from my archives a few weeks ago, something I had written in the summer of 2012. That was shortly after my book had been released, and I know now as I read back over it that in my heart, I knew it was time to stop blogging back then. But I had a book to promote and a platform to maintain, so I powered through and kept at it for a few more years.<\/p>\n<p>In the late summer of 2014, I had one of those rare but wonderful epiphany moments where out of the blue, the thought &#8220;I&#8217;m closing my blog&#8221; rolled through my mind, and it felt so incredibly hopeful and liberating, I knew that the time had finally come to be finished.<\/p>\n<h3>Were you making an income?<\/h3>\n<p>Sort of. I experimented with different income streams including private ads, sponsored campaigns, and affiliate work, but it was only ever enough to pay my blogging bills and have a little extra play money on the side.<\/p>\n<h3>Did you know you had a different direction you wanted to go in, or did that come later?<\/h3>\n<p>My friend <a href=\"http:\/\/theartofsimple.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tsh Oxenreider<\/a> had been generous in asking me to be a frequent guest on her <a href=\"http:\/\/theartofsimple.net\/podcast-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Art of Simple podcast<\/a>, and that experience gave me the confidence to being exploring creating <a href=\"http:\/\/sortaawesomemegan.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">my own show<\/a>. I knew that I was deeply burned out on writing, yet my personality is one that craves connection and community. I&#8217;m solidly in my late thirties now and the thought of teaching myself how to work in a new medium was exhilarating and inspiring.<\/p>\n<h3>How did you finally make the decision?<\/h3>\n<p>I know this sounds a little woo-woo, but I genuinely feel like the decision was made for me. Once I knew it was time to close the blog, I found it excruciatingly difficult to write anything. It was as if after writing easily and frequently since I was in the fifth grade, I had finally used up all of my words. I couldn&#8217;t have kept blogging even if I wanted to. The well had run utterly dry.<\/p>\n<h3>What were the factors that led you to stop? Were they internal reasons or external?<\/h3>\n<p>I would say it was 95% internal and only 5% external. The external reasons include the pressure to create Pinterest-worthy posts, click-inspiring headlines, and content that would perform well on all social media platforms. But as I said above, it was mostly this internal assurance that the time had come to move on and move forward to taking on new projects.<\/p>\n<h3>Have you felt\/seen\/heard evidence that this feeling of discontent is widespread among bloggers?<\/h3>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny, having been part of the blogging community for over eight years, I&#8217;ve certainly seen bloggers far more widely-read and well-known step away from their platforms for a variety of reasons long before I chose to do so myself. Yet I think it&#8217;s one of those things when once you&#8217;ve tuned into a certain vibe, you start to feel it everywhere you turn. Yes, I think there is a feeling of discontent amongst my peers who are still blogging, but I think that&#8217;s the nature of this beast; a beast which on the one hand has done away with the gate-keepers and made a path for creatives to share their work in ways never possible before, but on the other hand, it requires of you the creation of awesome, amazing, share-able content day after day into perpetuity.<\/p>\n<h3>Why podcasting?<\/h3>\n<p>I have dreams of exploring lots of new mediums in the realm of new media, but I decided to start with podcasting because I am an unrepentant podcast junkie. The more shows I discovered and the more I found myself delighted by what others are creating in this realm, the more I became consumed with the idea of creating <a href=\"http:\/\/sortaawesomemegan.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">my own show<\/a>. Even just a few months in, this is one of the most exciting, rewarding, and thrilling things I&#8217;ve ever done. I&#8217;m in love with the process and product, start to finish. My only regret is that I didn&#8217;t start sooner!<\/p>\n<h3>What advice do you have for people who are thinking of stopping, but are a bit frightened to totally pull the pin?<\/h3>\n<p>When you are dating someone seriously and begin to ask, &#8220;is this person The One?&#8221; you&#8217;re often told, &#8220;when you know, <i>you know.<\/i>&#8221; I feel it&#8217;s the same way with blogging. When it&#8217;s time to stop &#8211; not just take a break to recover and rediscover your purpose and mission in blogging, but truly stop blogging &#8211; you just <i>know<\/i>. And it is absolutely scary. I spent a few months scribbling in my journal thoughts revolving around the question, &#8220;but now what am I going to <i>do<\/i>?&#8221; So take the time to work through the fear and any other negative feelings that surface as a result of such a big decision, but know that everything good and valuable and important that you learned from blogging can be put into practice in a dazzling number of ways outside of this medium.<\/p>\n<h3>What&#8217;s life like on the other side?<\/h3>\n<p>Liberating. People often ask me if I miss blogging, and I can genuinely say that I don&#8217;t! I think that&#8217;s because I didn&#8217;t take my own advice and pushed myself to keep blogging long after it was time for me to be done. I didn&#8217;t realize how much mental real estate blogging was taking up in my mind, but now that that chapter is over, I feel so much more free. There&#8217;s a wonderful lightness that comes with following your intuition, no matter how scary the path is that it leads you down. It&#8217;s a newfound freedom that I am enjoying immensely.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Do you feel a bit like quitting? Like there&#8217;s something else on the horizon you&#8217;d like to explore, but you can&#8217;t just walk away? Let&#8217;s chat in the comments, cos I feel like that too&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Stacey is the Managing Editor of ProBlogger.net: a writer, blogger, and full-time word nerd balancing it all with being a stay-at-home mum. She writes about all this and more at\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/theveggiemama.com\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Veggie Mama<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>. 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