My friend Nikki (who I just mentioned in my previous post), has made her own blog about college, and I figured I would try and get her some readers (if, of course any of you are interested, I’m not going to force you to go to my friends blog lol). yay for Shameless Blog Promoting!
http://collegegirl-becomingmore.blogspot.com/
On a side note, I have been thinking about whether or not I want to make another blog. This blog is supposed to center on Fat/Body Acceptance, some newbie feminism dashed in, and an occasional post about something off topic. I’m a person who likes to have her online crap organized. On Deviantart, I have a photo account and a drawing account, because I like to have the mediums seperate. I just do. It sucks when I don’t have any new photos and nothing gets uploaded on that account for months, but that’s just the way I am. So, I have been debating about making another blog for my college thoughts. Since ramblings about college don’t really ‘fit’ with this blog. They fit with me, but is this blog really all about me, or just about the parts of me that are relative to fat issues? I feel as though I do prefer this blog to be relative to those issues, it keeps the blog cohesive. I am sure there will be college incidents which will give me inspiration to write a post here, but for the mundane happenings of college life I think I would rather have another blog for that instead of mixing it together. I’ve been thinking about this for awhile. Or if I should make a blog as a Nursing Student? The Nursing Student might work better, since then I can “retire” the blog once I am no longer a student, and my four year student blog will be done!
Though that gives me questions about this blog- do I end it once I am no longer a teenager? As it is, yanno, Diary of a Fat Teenager. I’d kinda rather end it once I get into my 20s, at which time I can make a new blog, and preserve the old one so that someday other teenagers can find it and read my thoughts as a teenager. And then I can waste lots of paper by printing all my posts out so I can look back on them. Anyway, I have another 2 years to decide on what I will do with this blog once I am no longer a teenager.
I hate to be an arse though and have two different blogs for people to keep up on, one is hard enough. (Plus, and this may be a selfish thing from me, I know lots of people won’t make the “switch” and will only read this blog, therefore giving me less readers to reach out/share my thoughts to. The same thing happened when I moved my art on deviantart from my photo account to my new art account, half my watchers didn’t bother with it. I hate how I feel that comments and pageviews are a reflection of how good your blog is..) So anyway… Just some quick thoughts of mine about where this blog will be headed. I know I am asking for a lot of advice in the past few posts, but, again, if you have any thoughts on the matter let me know.
…And go visit Nikki’s blog
lol. It is rather new, but check out her awesome art skillzzz.
Well, if you feel the need to separate into two blogs, then you should do it. Keep this one to focuse on body politics and feminism, and the other for the experience of being a college student. I wouldn’t consider it as spreading yourself too thin (not meaning literally — lol). Just one thing, though: it’s simpler for your own management to keep them under the same blogging service. So if I were you, I’d make the new blog also a wordpress blog (you can easily switch between them in the dashboard).
I have several blogs — my FA blog is separate from my livejournal blog because the latter is more general. Mind you, I haven’t been motivated much to blog lately, but at least they’re there if I have something to gripe about.
By: ladyjaye on August 1, 2008
at 4:23 pm
I personally love your blog, but I really like the focused ones about fat-acceptance and the like. I am pro-separating blogs. Just my thought!
By: Marie Parmar on August 1, 2008
at 11:05 pm
Thank you Lizzie!! so much!
And Breaking Dawn is driving me crazy!!!
By: Nikki on August 2, 2008
at 6:11 pm
Hey, I just ran across your blog. I’m 18, and my blog is all about me: college, boys, food, friends, you name it. I think mine is kind of unique because it’s all thrown in there together. And sometimes my food issues merge with my friend issues (okay, a lot of times). So, at least for me, it would be really hard to separate my food stuff from the rest of my life. Just a thought. In any case, I really like your blog and I will be coming back!
By: Tori on August 9, 2008
at 7:25 am
hi
I have another blog that is all about what I went thru/am going thru with issues about eating/food in general/becoming healthy etc.
And if you feel like ditching the blog when you’re 20- go for it. I’ve switched blogs twice now and all my readers followed me, because if they like what you’re writing- the web address doesn’t matter.
Emma
By: emmaelizabeth on August 9, 2008
at 11:04 pm
I like your theme…Do you know if there is a theme like this for a self hosted wp blog?
Hector Tapia-Perez
By: Hector Perez on September 8, 2008
at 1:53 am