Can I Diversify My Blog Successfully?

A few posts back I talked about how glad I am to see 2016 arrive!  A new year always spurs me to consider new ideas, change things up a bit, DIVERSIFY!  This year the thought I am most focused on is my blog and the need or more precisely the want to diversify it.  I hit a giant roadblock last week however, when I was infiltrated with a substantial amount of malware.  Hackers suck and so did this set back!  Now I am more than ready to get on with it.

You may laugh at this; the first time I heard about a blog, a little over 5 years ago, I didn’t even know what a blog was!  Laughable in this day and age.  I was immediately intrigued with blogs and began to google them to find out what all the fuss was about.  What I quickly discovered was “I want to blog”! The segment on TV talked about how if you want to blog you need to choose a topic that you can easily write about for at least one entire year. Hmmmm…I answered that question right away…FOOD!  I jotted down several months worth of ideas for recipes or food related posts I could tackle, figured out how to get a blog up and running and so it began.

The date my blog went live was January 4, 2011.  Since that date the vast majority of my posts have been food or bee related.  Recipes, the bulk of which I think it is safe to say are sweet; cakes, pies, cookies, brownies.  It’s not difficult to determine that my favorite food is of the sweet variety.  Not beneficial for my health but true none the less.  Although many people find “bees” interesting those are not my most visited posts.  Do I want to stop writing about food and bees?  No, no, I want to continue to write about both.  So you may be asking,”why do you want to diversify?”.

Here’s the deal.  There are thousands of food blogs out there in the blogosphere. There is a place for each and every one of us too.  Blogs about bees…not so many but a fair number.  Here’s the catch – I feel a pull to write about life and lifestyle.

There, I said it.  Who will my musings be of interest to?  I can’t answer that question today.  I have an inkling who they may be – maybe YOU or if I’m charmed perhaps I’ll acquire a few new readers!  I might want to write about yoga, or birds, or my latest book crush, or some brilliant thought that passed through my head.  Motherhood, being a wife, an empty nester or why I like oil pulling.

I want to challenge myself to be a more creative writer, to not get weighed down by restrictions on my blog.  Looking back, in the beginning my photos were pretty pathetic. I was using a point and shoot camera.  I’ve since acquired a great camera and feel my photos are vastly improved.  Now I’m ready to work on the content.  So…here I go again.  Same song-second verse.  Now….hmmm what to tackle first?  I’m open to suggestions…fire away!  See ya’ soon!